Re: [PATCH 01/22] python/mkvenv: ensure HAVE_LIB variables are actually constants

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 17/11/2025 19.51, John Snow wrote:
> Pylint 4.x has refined checking for variable names that behave as
> constants vs ones that do not; unfortunately our tricky import machinery
> is perceived as these variables being re-assigned.
> 
> Add a temporary variable with an underscore and assign to the global
> constants precisely once to alleviate this new nag message. Add an
> ignore for this name for older versions of pylint that developers may
> have installed locally.
> 
> (In other words: there is no solution that will cater to both pre- and
> post- 4.x versions, so we target 4.x here and silence older versions.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> ---
>   python/scripts/mkvenv.py | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
>   python/setup.cfg         |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>