diff --git a/lib/ansible/errors/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/errors/__init__.py
index d8f6a61c97..a2411b7bef 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/errors/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/errors/__init__.py
@@ -19,7 +19,13 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-from ansible.errors.yaml_strings import *
+from ansible.errors.yaml_strings import ( YAML_POSITION_DETAILS,
+        YAML_COMMON_UNQUOTED_VARIABLE_ERROR,
+        YAML_COMMON_DICT_ERROR,
+        YAML_COMMON_UNQUOTED_COLON_ERROR,
+        YAML_COMMON_PARTIALLY_QUOTED_LINE_ERROR,
+        YAML_COMMON_UNBALANCED_QUOTES_ERROR )
+
 from ansible.utils.unicode import to_unicode, to_str
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py b/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py
index 390efd30d9..da62438f28 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class WorkerProcess(multiprocessing.Process):
             if fileno is not None:
                 try:
                     self._new_stdin = os.fdopen(os.dup(fileno))
-                except OSError as e:
+                except OSError:
                     # couldn't dupe stdin, most likely because it's
                     # not a valid file descriptor, so we just rely on
                     # using the one that was passed in