Avoided assignment followed by immediate return.

Identified using the following command:

$ pcre2grep --line-number --multiline --recursive \
    "(?s)(\n +)(\w+) = [^\n]+\1return \2;?$" \
    django docs extras js_tests scripts tests

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tests/middleware/tests.py b/tests/middleware/tests.py
index 63eaa5d28f..6009350365 100644
--- a/tests/middleware/tests.py
+++ b/tests/middleware/tests.py
@@ -1027,8 +1027,7 @@ class ETagGZipMiddlewareTest(SimpleTestCase):
         """
 
         def get_response(req):
-            response = HttpResponse(self.compressible_string)
-            return response
+            return HttpResponse(self.compressible_string)
 
         def get_cond_response(req):
             return ConditionalGetMiddleware(get_response)(req)
diff --git a/tests/test_runner/tests.py b/tests/test_runner/tests.py
index 30ea4ea670..c4946c3e58 100644
--- a/tests/test_runner/tests.py
+++ b/tests/test_runner/tests.py
@@ -156,8 +156,7 @@ class TestSuiteTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def make_tests(self):
         """Return an iterable of tests."""
         suite = self.make_test_suite()
-        tests = list(iter_test_cases(suite))
-        return tests
+        return list(iter_test_cases(suite))
 
     def test_shuffle_tests(self):
         tests = self.make_tests()