Empty block of code found PTC-W0047
Anti-pattern
Major
4 days ago
—
2 years old
Body doesn't contain any code
2119 """
2120 m = None
2121 cnt = 0
2122 for cnt, m in enumerate(pat.finditer(txt), start=1):2123 pass
2124
2125 def marker(m):Body doesn't contain any code
1671
1672 if under_categories:
1673 category = get_regexes('category', site)[0]
1674 for last_category in category.finditer(newtext):1675 pass
1676 for reg in under_categories:
1677 special = reg.search(newtext)
Description
In most cases, an empty body of for, while or if implies some piece of code is missing.
Such empty block must be either filled or removed.
Bad practice
for i in range(10):
pass
Preferred:
for i in range(10):
print(i)