[PR #5940/2b8ac3c6 backport][stable-6] Remove unneccessary imports (#5976)

Remove unneccessary imports (#5940)

* Remove unneccessary imports.

* Keep unnecessary imports in module_utils - for now.

* Make older sanity tests shut up.

* Also make flake8 happier.

(cherry picked from commit 2b8ac3c629)

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

plugins/inventory/linode.py

@@ -121,10 +121,7 @@ compose:
   ansible_host: "ipv4 | community.general.json_query('[?public==`false`].address') | first"
 '''
 
-import os
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable
 
 

plugins/inventory/lxd.py

@@ -150,12 +150,10 @@ groupby:
     attribute: internals
 '''
 
-import binascii
 import json
 import re
 import time
 import os
-import socket
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.dict_transformations import dict_merge

plugins/inventory/online.py

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ from sys import version as python_version
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.ansible_release import __version__ as ansible_version
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin