Howdy all,
A common idiom I use is::
def frobnicate(warble):
foo = complex_computation()
bar = long.access.path.leading.to.useful.value
baz = (lengthy + expression * with_several_parts)
spangulate("%(warble)s: %(foo)s%(bar)s [%(baz)d]" % vars())
This allows the format of the string to be clear, and allows the
separate parts of it to have meaningful names.
However, this is causing pylint to complain::
W:218:frobnicate: Unused argument 'warble'
W:219:frobnicate: Unused variable 'foo'
W:220:frobnicate: Unused variable 'bar'
W:221:frobnicate: Unused variable 'baz'
That is, pylint is not aware that the names used by accessing the values
from the dictionary returned by ‘vars()’.
This warning, when it actually *does* detect unused name bindings, is
very useful; I don't want to disable it. Nor do I want to pepper my code
with hints to pylint about each one of these, detracting significantly
from the readability which is the main point of the above idiom.
How can I make pylint aware in the general case that the above idiom
does, in fact, constitute a use of the names ‘warble’, ‘foo’, ‘bar’, and
‘baz’ in the code?
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