import-error inconsistency between except ImportError and with contextlib.suppress(ImportError)

[Guerteltier]

Bug description

There's an inconsistency with import-error between except ImportError and with contextlib.suppress(ImportError).
With the former Pylint doesn't complain when it can't find the module/package, but with the latter it does complain.

This can easily be reproduced with the following code:

# pylint: disable=missing-module-docstring
import contextlib

try:
    import bacon  # pylint: disable=unused-import
except ImportError:
    pass

with contextlib.suppress(ImportError):
    import eggs  # pylint: disable=unused-import

Configuration

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Command used

pylint toast.py

Pylint output

************* Module toast
toast.py:10:4: E0401: Unable to import 'eggs' (import-error)

Expected behavior

It's consistent.

Pylint version

pylint 2.15.0-a0
astroid 2.12.2
Python 3.10.5 (main, Jul 27 2022, 01:21:11) [GCC 10.2.1 20210130 (Red Hat 10.2.1-11)]

OS / Environment

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Additional dependencies

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[jacobtylerwalls]

Thanks for the report. The node_ignores_exception utility only checks exception handlers. It should check the contextlib.suppress context manager also. This will end up affecting several additional messages.