How to avoid PEP8 'imported but unused'
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Sun May 5 12:38:46 EDT 2013
Adam Jiang wrote:
> I am new to python. Now, I am woring on an application within Django
> framework. When I checked my code with pep8 and pyflakes, some warning
> messages show up-'Foobar imported but unused'. Obviously, it indicates
> that some modules are imprted to current module but never get
> references. However, it seems the message is wrong in this case:
>
> # file: urls.py
> urlpattens = patterns(
> '',
> url('^signup/$', 'signup')
> }
>
> # file: register.py
> def signup(request):
> return ...
>
> # file: views.py
> import signup from register
>
> The warning message is shown in file views.py. It seems to me that the
> code is okay because Django requires all functions serve as 'view' is
> typically go into views.py. 'import' is about get 'signup' function
> into module 'views.py'. Or, I am totally wrong? Is there a proper way
> to avoid this warnning?
pylint has a way to suppress such warnings with a comment like
from signup import register # pylint:disable=W0611
but personally I find the magic comment more annoying than the false
warning...
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