diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
index 427a4d77f88..cedca170243 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import fnmatch
 import os
 import sys
 import re
-import stat
 import itertools
 
 from ansible.compat.six import string_types
@@ -134,7 +133,7 @@ class Inventory(object):
                 return re.search(pattern_str[1:], str)
             else:
                 return fnmatch.fnmatch(str, pattern_str)
-        except Exception as e:
+        except Exception:
             raise AnsibleError('invalid host pattern: %s' % pattern_str)
 
     def _match_list(self, items, item_attr, pattern_str):
@@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ class Inventory(object):
                 pattern = re.compile(fnmatch.translate(pattern_str))
             else:
                 pattern = re.compile(pattern_str[1:])
-        except Exception as e:
+        except Exception:
             raise AnsibleError('invalid host pattern: %s' % pattern_str)
 
         for item in items:
@@ -397,7 +396,6 @@ class Inventory(object):
         """
 
         results = []
-        hosts = []
         hostnames = set()
 
         def __append_host_to_results(host):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
index 040073237a6..537fde1ef9e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import ast
 import re
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.errors import *
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.inventory.host import Host
 from ansible.inventory.group import Group
 from ansible.inventory.expand_hosts import detect_range
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
         try:
             tokens = shlex_split(line, comments=True)
         except ValueError as e:
-            self._raise_error("Error parsing host definition '%s': %s" % (varstring, e))
+            self._raise_error("Error parsing host definition '%s': %s" % (line, e))
 
         (hostnames, port) = self._expand_hostpattern(tokens[0])
         hosts = self._Hosts(hostnames, port)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/script.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/script.py
index 8fa53c05dbd..6dfb1d2af08 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/script.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/script.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from collections import Mapping
 from ansible.compat.six import iteritems
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.errors import *
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.inventory.host import Host
 from ansible.inventory.group import Group
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import json_dict_bytes_to_unicode