Clean up pointless statements (#79941)

* Add ignores for intentional pointless statements

* Remove redundant docstring

* Fix function docstring placement

lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py

@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ if not HAS_SSLCONTEXT and HAS_SSL:
         libssl = ctypes.CDLL(libssl_name)
         for method in ('TLSv1_1_method', 'TLSv1_2_method'):
             try:
-                libssl[method]
+                libssl[method]  # pylint: disable=pointless-statement
                 # Found something - we'll let openssl autonegotiate and hope
                 # the server has disabled sslv2 and 3.  best we can do.
                 PROTOCOL = ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23

lib/ansible/modules/yum.py

@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ class YumModule(YumDnf):
 
             # A sideeffect of accessing conf is that the configuration is
             # loaded and plugins are discovered
-            self.yum_base.conf
+            self.yum_base.conf  # pylint: disable=pointless-statement
 
             try:
                 for rid in self.disablerepo:

lib/ansible/plugins/cliconf/__init__.py

@@ -360,7 +360,6 @@ class CliconfBase(AnsiblePlugin):
                         remote host before triggering timeout exception
         :return: None
         """
-        """Fetch file over scp/sftp from remote device"""
         ssh = self._connection.paramiko_conn._connect_uncached()
         if proto == 'scp':
             if not HAS_SCP:

lib/ansible/plugins/filter/core.py

@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ def ternary(value, true_val, false_val, none_val=None):
 
 
 def regex_escape(string, re_type='python'):
+    """Escape all regular expressions special characters from STRING."""
     string = to_text(string, errors='surrogate_or_strict', nonstring='simplerepr')
-    '''Escape all regular expressions special characters from STRING.'''
     if re_type == 'python':
         return re.escape(string)
     elif re_type == 'posix_basic':
@@ -299,9 +299,9 @@ def to_uuid(string, namespace=UUID_NAMESPACE_ANSIBLE):
 
 
 def mandatory(a, msg=None):
+    """Make a variable mandatory."""
     from jinja2.runtime import Undefined
 
-    ''' Make a variable mandatory '''
     if isinstance(a, Undefined):
         if a._undefined_name is not None:
             name = "'%s' " % to_text(a._undefined_name)