From 1878c9f36973e1c25a19d9e02f4eed60eab35905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Pylint cleanups.

---
 src/sugar/util.py | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sugar/util.py b/src/sugar/util.py
index 8f81210c..a713cb0e 100644
--- a/src/sugar/util.py
+++ b/src/sugar/util.py
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ import time
 import sha
 import random
 import binascii
-import string
-from gettext import gettext as _
 import gettext
 
+_ = gettext.gettext
+
 def printable_hash(in_hash):
     """Convert binary hash data into printable characters."""
     printable = ""
@@ -58,7 +58,12 @@ def unique_id(data = ''):
 ACTIVITY_ID_LEN = 40
 
 def is_hex(s):
-    return s.strip(string.hexdigits) == ''    
+    try:
+        int(s, 16)
+    except ValueError:
+        return False
+
+    return True 
 
 def validate_activity_id(actid):
     """Validate an activity ID."""
@@ -106,6 +111,7 @@ class LRU:
     http://pype.sourceforge.net
     Copyright 2003 Josiah Carlson.
     """
+    # pylint: disable-msg=W0102,W0612
     def __init__(self, count, pairs=[]):
         self.count = max(count, 1)
         self.d = {}