On the flake8 test selection, this PR does _not_ focus on "_style violations_" (the majority of flake8 error codes that [__python/black__](https://github.com/python/black) can autocorrect). Instead these tests are focus on runtime safety and correctness:
* E9 tests are about Python syntax errors usually raised because flake8 can not build an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). Often these issues are a sign of unused code or code that has not been ported to Python 3. These would be compile-time errors in a compiled language but in a dynamic language like Python they result in the script halting/crashing on the user.
* F63 tests are usually about the confusion between identity and equality in Python. Use ==/!= to compare str, bytes, and int literals is the classic case. These are areas where __a == b__ is True but __a is b__ is False (or vice versa).
* F7 tests logic errors and syntax errors in type hints
* F82 tests are almost always _undefined names_ which are usually a sign of a typo, missing imports, or code that has not been ported to Python 3. These also would be compile-time errors in a compiled language but in Python a __NameError__ is raised which will halt/crash the script on the user.
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Christopher K. Hoadley