W0105 pointless-string-statement

Message

'String statement has no effect'

Description

Used when a string is used as a statement (which of course has no effect). This is a particular case of W0104 with its own message so you can easily disable it if you’re using those strings as documentation, instead of comments.

Example

In the following example, the statement on line 3 does not have an effect. It can safely be removed.

def fn():
    something = 1
    "something"
    return something

3:4: W0105: String statement has no effect

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