ruff/docs/rules/unused-variable.md
Martin Fischer 28c9263722 Automatically linkify option references in rule documentation
Previously the rule documentation referenced configuration options
via full https:// URLs, which was bad for several reasons:

* changing the website would mean you'd have to change all URLs
* the links didn't work when building mkdocs locally
* the URLs showed up in the `ruff rule` output
* broken references weren't detected by our CI

This commit solves all of these problems by post-processing the
Markdown, recognizing sections such as:

    ## Options

    * `flake8-tidy-imports.ban-relative-imports`

`cargo dev generate-all` will automatically linkify such references
and panic if the referenced option doesn't exist.
Note that the option can also be linked in the other Markdown sections
via e.g. [`flake8-tidy-imports.ban-relative-imports`] since
the post-processing code generates a CommonMark link definition.

Resolves #2766.
2023-02-12 13:19:11 -05:00

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unused-variable (F841)

Derived from the Pyflakes linter.

Autofix is always available.

What it does

Checks for the presence of unused variables in function scopes.

Why is this bad?

A variable that is defined but not used is likely a mistake, and should be removed to avoid confusion.

If a variable is intentionally defined-but-not-used, it should be prefixed with an underscore, or some other value that adheres to the dummy-variable-rgx pattern.

Options

Example

def foo():
    x = 1
    y = 2
    return x

Use instead:

def foo():
    x = 1
    return x