Linters will complain about all sorts of nonsense, and I'll have to continue to remind people that pep8 was only supposed to be guidance, and never something th

Linters will complain about all sorts of nonsense, and I'll have to continue to remind people that pep8 was only supposed to be guidance, and never something that was enforced. In short: being picked up by a linter does not mean that something is un-pythonic.