fixed linting error on ensembl version

Author: iskandr

lint.sh

@@ -1,15 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -o errexit
 
-
-# disabling several categories of errors due to false positives in pylint,
-# see these issues:
-# - https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/issues/701/false-positives-with-not-an-iterable-and
-# - https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/issues/58
-
-find pyensembl -name '*.py' \
-  | xargs pylint \
-  --errors-only \
-  --disable=unsubscriptable-object,not-an-iterable,no-member
-
-echo 'Passes pylint check'
+ruff check pyensembl/ \
+&& \
+echo "Passes ruff check"

pyensembl/ensembl_versions.py

@@ -14,14 +14,15 @@
 MAX_ENSEMBL_RELEASE = 114
 MAX_PLANTS_ENSEMBL_RELEASE = 58
 
+
 def check_release_number(release):
     """
     Check to make sure a release is in the valid range of
     Ensembl releases.
     """
     try:
         release = int(release)
-    except:
+    except (ValueError, TypeError):
         raise ValueError("Invalid Ensembl release: %s" % release)
 
     if release < MIN_ENSEMBL_RELEASE: