3.14 annotation evaluation is deferred

[nickdrozd]

Bug description

In 3.14, evaluation of annotations is deferred. Pylint raises undefined-variable for the field annotation below, but in 3.14 this is a false positive.

class X:
    x: X  # <-- undefined-variable

Configuration

Command used

pylint annotation.py

Pylint output

annotation.py:2:7: E0602: Undefined variable 'X' (undefined-variable)

Expected behavior

no warning

Pylint version

pylint 3.3.2
astroid 3.3.6
Python 3.14.0a3+ (heads/main:2a66dd33dfc, Dec 21 2024, 16:04:14) [GCC 9.4.0]

OS / Environment

No response

Additional dependencies