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Redundant assignment

ID: py/redundant-assignment
Kind: problem
Security severity: 
Severity: error
Precision: very-high
Tags:
   - reliability
   - useless-code
   - external/cwe/cwe-563
Query suites:
   - python-security-and-quality.qls

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Assigning a variable to itself is redundant and often an indication of a mistake in the code.

Recommendation

Check the assignment carefully for mistakes. If the assignment is truly redundant and not simply incorrect then remove it.

Example

In this example the programmer clearly intends to assign to self.eggs but made a mistake.

class Spam:

    def __init__(self, eggs):
        eggs = eggs

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