That’s because SQLAlchemy filters are one of the few places where == False actually makes sense. Everywhere else you should not use it. Add a # noqa comment to the line and be done with it. Or you can use sqlalchemy.sql.expression.false: from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import false TestCase.obsoleted == false() where false() returns the right value for … Read more
pylintalready detects this as a problem (as of version 1.7). For example, here’s my tuple.py: “””Module docstring to satisfy pylint””” def main(): “””The main function””” thing = 1, print(type(thing)) if __name__ == “__main__”: main() $ pylint tuple.py No config file found, using default configuration ************* Module tuple R: 5, 0: Disallow trailing comma tuple (trailing-comma-tuple) … Read more
The recommendation in PEP-8 you are running into is: Always use a def statement instead of an assignment statement that binds a lambda expression directly to a name. Yes: def f(x): return 2*x No: f = lambda x: 2*x The first form means that the name of the resulting function object is specifically ‘f’ instead … Read more