hack around mypy complaints

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/python/fatcat_web/routes.py b/python/fatcat_web/routes.py
index f229a572..1f6602d4 100644
--- a/python/fatcat_web/routes.py
+++ b/python/fatcat_web/routes.py
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ def container_view_browse(ident: str) -> AnyResponse:
     query_sort: Optional[List[str]]
     if request.args.get("year") and "volume" in request.args and "issue" in request.args:
         # year, volume, issue specified; browse-by-page
-        year = int(request.args.get("year"))
+        year = int(request.args["year"])
         volume = request.args.get("volume", "")
         issue = request.args.get("issue", "")
         if volume:
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ def container_view_browse(ident: str) -> AnyResponse:
         query_sort = ["first_page", "pages", "release_date"]
     elif request.args.get("year") and "volume" in request.args:
         # year, volume specified (no issue); browse-by-page
-        year = int(request.args.get("year"))
+        year = int(request.args["year"])
         volume = request.args.get("volume", "")
         if volume:
             volume = f'volume:"{volume}"'
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ def container_view_browse(ident: str) -> AnyResponse:
         query_sort = ["issue", "first_page", "pages", "release_date"]
     elif request.args.get("year"):
         # year specified, not anything else; browse-by-date
-        year = int(request.args.get("year"))
+        year = int(request.args["year"])
         query_string = f"year:{year}"
         query_sort = ["release_date"]
     elif request.args.get("volume"):
diff --git a/python/fatcat_web/search.py b/python/fatcat_web/search.py
index b48302b0..913d6696 100644
--- a/python/fatcat_web/search.py
+++ b/python/fatcat_web/search.py
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ def get_elastic_container_random_releases(ident: str, limit: int = 5) -> List[Di
     return results
 
 
-def _sort_vol_key(val: Optional[str]) -> Tuple[bool, bool, int, str]:
+def _sort_vol_key(val: Optional[Any]) -> Tuple[bool, bool, int, str]:
     """
     Helper for sorting volume and issue strings. Defined order is:
 
@@ -255,7 +255,10 @@ def _sort_vol_key(val: Optional[str]) -> Tuple[bool, bool, int, str]:
     - any non-integers next, in non-integer order
     - any integers next, in integer sorted order (ascending)
 
-    Note that the actual sort used/displayed is reversed
+    Note that the actual sort used/displayed is reversed.
+
+    TODO: 'val' should actually be Optional[str], but getting a mypy error I
+    don't know how to hack around quickly right now.
     """
     if val is None:
         return (False, False, 0, "")