LGTM.com - false positive - Import is not used

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

Description of the false positive

The import is used in the sense that succeeding/failing to import sets a global variable.

have_numpy = True
try:
    import numpy
except ImportError:
    have_numpy = False

This pattern is quite common.

URL to the alert on the project page on LGTM.com

https://lgtm.com/projects/g/pydicom/pydicom/snapshot/c9a698b7632de3b412a402962a3af0b19ba8e53b/files/pydicom/config.py?sort=name&dir=ASC&mode=heatmap#x83292be155c0c9c8:1

[hmakholm]

Indeed, this looks like a false positive. Thank you for reporting it!

Our current focus is on improving our security analysis. Because your report does not relate to a security query, we will put this on our backlog and prioritize it if we get enough reports of the same underlying issue in other projects. If you think that your report is related to our security analysis, please clarify that in a comment. Either way, we'll let you know here as soon as it's fixed!