From 9c53d2b2e9cf1315902ecbe4cb226dfe0426c6c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 21:34:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Address pointless-string-statement.

---
 .pylintrc                                         |  1 -
 plugins/module_utils/_api/transport/ssladapter.py | 11 +++++------
 plugins/module_utils/_api/utils/fnmatch.py        |  5 ++---
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 6e54de80..6e091ef7 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -403,7 +403,6 @@ disable=raw-checker-failed,
         no-member,
         no-name-in-module,
         not-an-iterable,
-        pointless-string-statement,
         possibly-used-before-assignment,
         protected-access,
         raise-missing-from,
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/_api/transport/ssladapter.py b/plugins/module_utils/_api/transport/ssladapter.py
index fe894ebf..7fc144d2 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/_api/transport/ssladapter.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/_api/transport/ssladapter.py
@@ -12,12 +12,6 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-
-""" Resolves OpenSSL issues in some servers:
-      https://lukasa.co.uk/2013/01/Choosing_SSL_Version_In_Requests/
-      https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/799
-"""
-
 from ansible_collections.community.docker.plugins.module_utils._version import (
     LooseVersion,
 )
@@ -26,6 +20,11 @@ from .._import_helper import HTTPAdapter, urllib3
 from .basehttpadapter import BaseHTTPAdapter
 
 
+# Resolves OpenSSL issues in some servers:
+#   https://lukasa.co.uk/2013/01/Choosing_SSL_Version_In_Requests/
+#   https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/799
+
+
 PoolManager = urllib3.poolmanager.PoolManager
 
 
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/_api/utils/fnmatch.py b/plugins/module_utils/_api/utils/fnmatch.py
index 4f3c1704..4ae9e019 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/_api/utils/fnmatch.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/_api/utils/fnmatch.py
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@
 # Note that this module util is **PRIVATE** to the collection. It can have breaking changes at any time.
 # Do not use this from other collections or standalone plugins/modules!
 
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-
 """Filename matching with shell patterns.
 
 fnmatch(FILENAME, PATTERN) matches according to the local convention.
@@ -25,6 +22,8 @@ The function translate(PATTERN) returns a regular expression
 corresponding to PATTERN.  (It does not compile it.)
 """
 
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import re