Patch 0001 changes GLModuleTable's unconditionals member from a dictionary to a set.
Since we only use it to check membership in GLModuleTable.addConditional() it is effectively a set anyways. Then in GLModuleTable.addUnconditional() we have: self.unconditionals.add(str(module)) instead of: self.unconditionals[str(module)] = True Since we only care about membership, I find the first more clear. The second makes me wonder if the value at the key is important. Patch 0002 is a small style change. It is very small so I don't think it is necessary to add to our list. I prefer, and tend to see more often: if var not in list: # do something instead of: if not var in list: # do something PEP 8 makes this recommendation for 'is not' and 'not ... is' for similar reasons [1]. $ grep -E 'not[[:blank:]]+[[:graph:]]+[[:blank:]]+in[[:blank:]]+' *.py GLEmiter.py: else: # if not str(module) in ['gnumakefile', 'maintainer-makefile'] GLEmiter.py: # "make check", because "make check" is not possible in a cross-compiling GLEmiter.py: # "make check", because "make check" is not possible in a cross-compiling GLError.py: 1: file does not exist in GLFileSystem: <file> GLError.py: message = 'file does not exist in GLFileSystem: %s' % repr(errinfo) GLModuleSystem.py: if not str(module) in self.unconditionals: GLModuleSystem.py: if not (m in main_modules_set and m.getApplicability() == 'main') ] Since we only have two occurrences of this, I think it is fine to change. The first is in a comment and the second is right above two occurrences of the preferred way of writing it: if not str(module) in self.unconditionals: # No unconditional dependency to the given module is known at this point. if str(module) not in self.dependers: self.dependers[str(module)] = [] if str(parent) not in self.dependers[str(module)]: self.dependers[str(module)].append(str(parent)) Note that I am not counting this line since the 'not' is doing more work than negating the 'in' and the parentheses make that clear. :) GLModuleSystem.py: if not (m in main_modules_set and m.getApplicability() == 'main') ] [1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations Collin