[libvirt PATCH] scripts: Fix E741 that pycodesyle is pointing out during syntax-check

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon May 25 15:23:23 UTC 2020


On 5/25/20 2:56 PM, Erik Skultety wrote:
> With newer pycodestyle 2.6.0 (which is part of flake8-3.8.2) reports
> the following pep violation during syntax-check:
> 
> ../scripts/check-remote-protocol.py:95:9: E741 ambiguous variable name 'l'
>      for l in err.strip().split("\n")
> 
> On all the distros we test on, this hasn't occurred yet, but with the
> future update of flake8 it likely would. The fix is easy, just name the
> variable appropriately.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> The weird thing is that E741 checking has been in pycodestyle since 2.1.0 [1],
> we now have 2.5.0 and yet only 2.6.0 is complaining about it
> [1] https://pycodestyle.pycqa.org/en/latest/developer.html#id8
> 
>   scripts/check-remote-protocol.py | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/check-remote-protocol.py b/scripts/check-remote-protocol.py
> index 25caa19563..cf9e3f84a1 100644
> --- a/scripts/check-remote-protocol.py
> +++ b/scripts/check-remote-protocol.py
> @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ if out == "" or pdwtagsproc.returncode != 0:
>       else:
>           print("WARNING: exit code %d, pdwtags appears broken:" %
>                 pdwtagsproc.returncode, file=sys.stderr)
> -    for l in err.strip().split("\n"):
> -        print("WARNING: %s" % l, file=sys.stderr)
> +    for line in err.strip().split("\n"):
> +        print("WARNING: %s" % line, file=sys.stderr)
>       print("WARNING: skipping the remote protocol test", file=sys.stderr)
>       sys.exit(0)

Ah, the error is about short variable name, it's about 'l' looking too 
similar to 'I'  (well, if this is somebody's case then I say use better 
font if you want to code). But in order to shut the checker up:

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

Michal




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