From 323989953b245733d9df9c8bdac51e6b415b8668 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Lantz <rlantz@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:39:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Try to fix pylint errors ;-p

---
 mininet/util.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mininet/util.py b/mininet/util.py
index 15a7b52..cb09f27 100644
--- a/mininet/util.py
+++ b/mininet/util.py
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ def encode( s ):
     "Encode a byte string if needed for Python 3"
     return s.encode( Encoding ) if Python3 else s
 try:
+    # pylint: disable=import-error
+    oldpexpect = None
     import pexpect as oldpexpect
+    # pylint: enable=import-error
 
     class Pexpect( object ):
         "Custom pexpect that is compatible with str"