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/_serial.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def parse_serial(value: str | bytes) -> int:
         except ValueError as exc:
             raise ValueError(
                 f"The {i + 1}{th(i + 1)} part {part!r} is not a hexadecimal number in range [0, 255]: {exc}"
-            )
+            ) from exc
         result = (result << 8) | part_value
     return result