How to avoid PEP8 'imported but unused'

[Adam Jiang]

Thanks. It works very well.

One more question. In this particular case it seems 'assert' should be
safe as a workaround, doesn't it?  'assert' will check if the symbol
is imported and not NULL. Is there side effect if I just applied this
rule as a generic one.

/Adam
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:18:40PM +0100, Fábio Santos wrote:
> I usually do this on pyflakes:
> 
> import whatever
> assert whatever  # silence pyflakes
> 
> Pyflakes and pep8 have no way of knowing django will import and use your
> module, or whether you are just importing a module for the side effects, so
> they issue a warning anyway. Assert'ing counts as using the module, so it
> counts as an used import.
> 
> On 5 May 2013 17:05, "Adam Jiang" <jiang.adam at gmail.com> 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?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > /Adam
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