From bb0d990e88a2120df2150e097dc17795474591e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?R=C3=A9my=20L=C3=A9one?= <remy.leone@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:53:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MAINT: list litteral

---
 numpy/_build_utils/waf.py           | 5 +----
 numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py | 4 +---
 numpy/distutils/npy_pkg_config.py   | 3 +--
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/numpy/_build_utils/waf.py b/numpy/_build_utils/waf.py
index 263640d9eef1..f1b6990bbabc 100644
--- a/numpy/_build_utils/waf.py
+++ b/numpy/_build_utils/waf.py
@@ -268,10 +268,7 @@ def check_type_size(conf, type_name, expected_sizes=None, **kw):
 
 @waflib.Configure.conf
 def check_functions_at_once(self, funcs, **kw):
-    header = []
-    header = ['#ifdef __cplusplus']
-    header.append('extern "C" {')
-    header.append('#endif')
+    header = ['#ifdef __cplusplus', 'extern "C" {', '#endif']
     for f in funcs:
         header.append("\tchar %s();" % f)
         # Handle MSVC intrinsics: force MS compiler to make a function
diff --git a/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py b/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py
index d22a2818eb14..111653a8294d 100644
--- a/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py
@@ -244,9 +244,7 @@ def find_python_dll():
     # - find it in python main dir
     # - in system32,
     # - ortherwise (Sxs), I don't know how to get it.
-    lib_dirs = []
-    lib_dirs.append(sys.prefix)
-    lib_dirs.append(os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'lib'))
+    lib_dirs = [sys.prefix, os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'lib')]
     try:
         lib_dirs.append(os.path.join(os.environ['SYSTEMROOT'], 'system32'))
     except KeyError:
diff --git a/numpy/distutils/npy_pkg_config.py b/numpy/distutils/npy_pkg_config.py
index 6156439e1f26..1c801fd9c069 100644
--- a/numpy/distutils/npy_pkg_config.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/npy_pkg_config.py
@@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ def libs(self, section="default"):
         return _escape_backslash(val)
 
     def __str__(self):
-        m = ['Name: %s' % self.name]
-        m.append('Description: %s' % self.description)
+        m = ['Name: %s' % self.name, 'Description: %s' % self.description]
         if self.requires:
             m.append('Requires:')
         else: