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Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 11:47:57 +0900
From: Adam Jiang <jiang.adam@gmail.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E1bio?= Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to avoid PEP8 'imported but unused'
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Thank you. Problem solved.

/Adam
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 06:27:44PM +0100, Fábio Santos wrote:
> That assert will never fail. If the symbol is not imported, the import
> statement raises ImportError. And actually "assert" makes sure that
> the value is not false-ish, not None/Null. And AFAIK a module object
> is *always* true.
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> --
> Fábio Santos