Work on issues found by pylint (#896)

* Look at possibly-used-before-assignment.

* Use latest beta releases of ansible-core 2.19 for mypy and pylint.

* Look at unsupported-*.

* Look at unknown-option-value.

* Look at redefined-builtin.

* Look at superfluous-parens.

* Look at unspecified-encoding.

* Adjust to new cryptography version and to ansible-core 2.17's pylint.

* Look at super-with-arguments.

* Look at no-else-*.

* Look at try-except-raise.

* Look at inconsistent-return-statements.

* Look at redefined-outer-name.

* Look at redefined-argument-from-local.

* Look at attribute-defined-outside-init.

* Look at unused-variable.

* Look at protected-access.

* Look at raise-missing-from.

* Look at arguments-differ.

* Look at useless-suppression and use-symbolic-message-instead.

* Look at consider-using-dict-items.

* Look at consider-using-in.

* Look at consider-using-set-comprehension.

* Look at consider-using-with.

* Look at use-dict-literal.

plugins/module_utils/_crypto/module_backends/certificate_info.py

@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = "%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ"
 
 
 class CertificateInfoRetrieval(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
+    cert: x509.Certificate
+
     def __init__(self, *, module: GeneralAnsibleModule, content: bytes) -> None:
         # content must be a bytes string
         self.module = module
@@ -169,11 +171,11 @@ class CertificateInfoRetrieval(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
         result["signature_algorithm"] = self._get_signature_algorithm()
         subject = self._get_subject_ordered()
         issuer = self._get_issuer_ordered()
-        result["subject"] = dict()
+        result["subject"] = {}
         for k, v in subject:
             result["subject"][k] = v
         result["subject_ordered"] = subject
-        result["issuer"] = dict()
+        result["issuer"] = {}
         for k, v in issuer:
             result["issuer"][k] = v
         result["issuer_ordered"] = issuer
@@ -249,9 +251,7 @@ class CertificateInfoRetrievalCryptography(CertificateInfoRetrieval):
     """Validate the supplied cert, using the cryptography backend"""
 
     def __init__(self, *, module: GeneralAnsibleModule, content: bytes) -> None:
-        super(CertificateInfoRetrievalCryptography, self).__init__(
-            module=module, content=content
-        )
+        super().__init__(module=module, content=content)
         self.name_encoding = module.params.get("name_encoding", "ignore")
 
     def _get_der_bytes(self) -> bytes:
@@ -289,36 +289,36 @@ class CertificateInfoRetrievalCryptography(CertificateInfoRetrieval):
                 x509.KeyUsage
             )
             current_key_usage = current_key_ext.value
-            key_usage = dict(
-                digital_signature=current_key_usage.digital_signature,
-                content_commitment=current_key_usage.content_commitment,
-                key_encipherment=current_key_usage.key_encipherment,
-                data_encipherment=current_key_usage.data_encipherment,
-                key_agreement=current_key_usage.key_agreement,
-                key_cert_sign=current_key_usage.key_cert_sign,
-                crl_sign=current_key_usage.crl_sign,
-                encipher_only=False,
-                decipher_only=False,
-            )
+            key_usage = {
+                "digital_signature": current_key_usage.digital_signature,
+                "content_commitment": current_key_usage.content_commitment,
+                "key_encipherment": current_key_usage.key_encipherment,
+                "data_encipherment": current_key_usage.data_encipherment,
+                "key_agreement": current_key_usage.key_agreement,
+                "key_cert_sign": current_key_usage.key_cert_sign,
+                "crl_sign": current_key_usage.crl_sign,
+                "encipher_only": False,
+                "decipher_only": False,
+            }
             if key_usage["key_agreement"]:
                 key_usage.update(
-                    dict(
-                        encipher_only=current_key_usage.encipher_only,
-                        decipher_only=current_key_usage.decipher_only,
-                    )
+                    {
+                        "encipher_only": current_key_usage.encipher_only,
+                        "decipher_only": current_key_usage.decipher_only,
+                    }
                 )
 
-            key_usage_names = dict(
-                digital_signature="Digital Signature",
-                content_commitment="Non Repudiation",
-                key_encipherment="Key Encipherment",
-                data_encipherment="Data Encipherment",
-                key_agreement="Key Agreement",
-                key_cert_sign="Certificate Sign",
-                crl_sign="CRL Sign",
-                encipher_only="Encipher Only",
-                decipher_only="Decipher Only",
-            )
+            key_usage_names = {
+                "digital_signature": "Digital Signature",
+                "content_commitment": "Non Repudiation",
+                "key_encipherment": "Key Encipherment",
+                "data_encipherment": "Data Encipherment",
+                "key_agreement": "Key Agreement",
+                "key_cert_sign": "Certificate Sign",
+                "crl_sign": "CRL Sign",
+                "encipher_only": "Encipher Only",
+                "decipher_only": "Decipher Only",
+            }
             return (
                 sorted(
                     [