pylint duplicate code false positive

Pylint Similarities Config

Try changing the ignore-imports in the similarities section of your pylintrc config file.

Default pylintrc:

[SIMILARITIES]

# Minimum lines number of a similarity.
min-similarity-lines=4

# Ignore comments when computing similarities.
ignore-comments=yes

# Ignore docstrings when computing similarities.
ignore-docstrings=yes

# Ignore imports when computing similarities.
ignore-imports=no