chore: refurbish Python code by applying refurb linter rules (#8296)

api/core/tools/utils/web_reader_tool.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import subprocess
 import tempfile
 import unicodedata
 from contextlib import contextmanager
+from pathlib import Path
 from urllib.parse import unquote
 
 import chardet
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ def get_url(url: str, user_agent: str = None) -> str:
         authors=a["byline"],
         publish_date=a["date"],
         top_image="",
-        text=a["plain_text"] if a["plain_text"] else "",
+        text=a["plain_text"] or "",
     )
 
     return res
@@ -117,8 +118,7 @@ def extract_using_readabilipy(html):
         subprocess.check_call(["node", "ExtractArticle.js", "-i", html_path, "-o", article_json_path])
 
     # Read output of call to Readability.parse() from JSON file and return as Python dictionary
-    with open(article_json_path, encoding="utf-8") as json_file:
-        input_json = json.loads(json_file.read())
+    input_json = json.loads(Path(article_json_path).read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
 
     # Deleting files after processing
     os.unlink(article_json_path)

api/core/tools/utils/yaml_utils.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def load_yaml_file(file_path: str, ignore_error: bool = True, default_value: Any
         with open(file_path, encoding="utf-8") as yaml_file:
             try:
                 yaml_content = yaml.safe_load(yaml_file)
-                return yaml_content if yaml_content else default_value
+                return yaml_content or default_value
             except Exception as e:
                 raise YAMLError(f"Failed to load YAML file {file_path}: {e}")
     except Exception as e: