Pylint warnings

[JamesParrott]

Describe the feature request

Great to have. The broad except:s in particular should be made more specific.

pylint --disable=R,C,E *shapefile.py 
************* Module shapefile
shapefile.py:1870:13: W0511: TODO: internal __record method should be faster but would have to (fixme)
shapefile.py:186:12: W0702: No exception type(s) specified (bare-except)
shapefile.py:342:4: W0120: Else clause on loop without a break statement, remove the else and de-indent all the code inside it (useless-else-on-loop)
shapefile.py:343:8: W0719: Raising too general exception: Exception (broad-exception-raised)
shapefile.py:552:16: W0120: Else clause on loop without a break statement, remove the else and de-indent all the code inside it (useless-else-on-loop)
shapefile.py:613:12: W0719: Raising too general exception: Exception (broad-exception-raised)
shapefile.py:639:12: W0719: Raising too general exception: Exception (broad-exception-raised)
shapefile.py:1374:12: W0201: Attribute 'bbox' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1400:12: W0201: Attribute 'z' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1427:12: W0201: Attribute 'z' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1407:16: W0201: Attribute 'm' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1414:16: W0201: Attribute 'm' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1436:16: W0201: Attribute 'm' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1438:16: W0201: Attribute 'm' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:761:12: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except KeyError as exc' and 'raise AttributeError('{} is not a field name'.format(item)) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:763:12: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except IndexError as exc' and 'raise IndexError('{} found as a field but not enough values available.'.format(item)) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:781:12: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except KeyError as exc' and 'raise AttributeError('{} is not a field name'.format(key)) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:820:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except TypeError as exc' and 'raise IndexError('{} is not a field name and not an int'.format(key)) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:918:4: W0107: Unnecessary pass statement (unnecessary-pass)
shapefile.py:1034:28: W0702: No exception type(s) specified (bare-except)
shapefile.py:1039:20: W0702: No exception type(s) specified (bare-except)
shapefile.py:1192:20: W0621: Redefining name 'unpack' from outer scope (line 20) (redefined-outer-name)
shapefile.py:1198:25: W0612: Unused variable 'recNum' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1235:24: W0612: Unused variable 'ext' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1366:8: W0622: Redefining built-in 'next' (redefined-builtin)
shapefile.py:1363:27: W0612: Unused variable 'zmin' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1363:34: W0612: Unused variable 'zmax' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1363:41: W0612: Unused variable 'mmin' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1363:48: W0612: Unused variable 'mmax' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1364:9: W0612: Unused variable 'recNum' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1500:12: W0621: Redefining name 'unpack' from outer scope (line 20) (redefined-outer-name)
shapefile.py:1508:17: W0612: Unused variable 'recNum' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1590:12: W0612: Unused variable 'field' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1619:8: W0612: Unused variable 'fieldTuples' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1661:17: W0612: Unused variable 'fmtSize' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1752:20: W0702: No exception type(s) specified (bare-except)
shapefile.py:1710:13: W0612: Unused variable 'name' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1710:24: W0612: Unused variable 'size' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:1345:8: W0201: Attribute 'shapeType' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1347:8: W0201: Attribute 'bbox' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1349:8: W0201: Attribute 'zbox' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1351:8: W0201: Attribute 'mbox' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1585:46: W0201: Attribute '__recordLength' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1620:8: W0201: Attribute '__fullRecStruct' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1621:8: W0201: Attribute '__fullRecLookup' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)
shapefile.py:1894:16: W0719: Raising too general exception: Exception (broad-exception-raised)
shapefile.py:1911:12: W0719: Raising too general exception: Exception (broad-exception-raised)
shapefile.py:2038:12: W0719: Raising too general exception: Exception (broad-exception-raised)
shapefile.py:2148:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write shapefile bounding box. Floats required.') from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2177:12: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write shapefile elevation and measure values. Floats required.') from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2238:16: W0719: Raising too general exception: Exception (broad-exception-raised)
shapefile.py:2259:12: W0719: Raising too general exception: Exception (broad-exception-raised)
shapefile.py:2273:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write bounding box for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2298:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write points for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2308:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write elevation extremes for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2318:20: W0106: Expression "[f.write(pack('<d', p[2] if len(p) > 2 else 0)) for p in s.points]" is assigned to nothing (expression-not-assigned)
shapefile.py:2320:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write elevation values for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2331:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write measure extremes for record %s. Expected floats' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2350:20: W0106: Expression "[f.write(pack('<d', p[mpos] if len(p) > mpos and p[mpos] is not None else NODATA)) for p in s.points]" is assigned to nothing (expression-not-assigned)
shapefile.py:2362:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write measure values for record %s. Expected floats' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2371:16: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write point for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2388:20: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write elevation value for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2399:20: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write elevation value for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2416:20: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write measure value for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2431:20: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('Failed to write measure value for record %s. Expected floats.' % self.shpNum) from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2450:12: W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'except error as exc' and 'raise ShapefileException('The .shp file has reached its file size limit > 4294967294 bytes (4.29 GB). To fix this, break up your file into multiple smaller ones.') from exc' (raise-missing-from)
shapefile.py:2779:8: W0621: Redefining name 'test' from outer scope (line 2754) (redefined-outer-name)
shapefile.py:2786:4: W0621: Redefining name 'failure_count' from outer scope (line 2805) (redefined-outer-name)
shapefile.py:2786:19: W0612: Unused variable 'test_count' (unused-variable)
shapefile.py:2801:4: W0105: String statement has no effect (pointless-string-statement)

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