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Why do we have this stupid code analyzer rule enabled anyway? Nobody writes code like this…
After telling them the lore why it’s there:
You have seen such things before?
11 Times, as a matter of fact
flake8-simplify has a bunch of rules like that for Python, most of which may be automatically fixed if you’re using something like ruff, so you never have to spend time actually fixing it.
Well, you shouldn’t have to spend any time actually fixing code found by that rule either. If the time you spent was larger than 0, you are better looking for the cause than making something that fixes it automatically.