fix lint issue

Unidata · Jan 7, 2020 · 73c92f6 · 73c92f6
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commit 73c92f6
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diff --git a/src/metpy/io/_tools.py b/src/metpy/io/_tools.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def open_as_needed(filename, mode='rb'):
     if hasattr(filename, 'read'):
         return filename
 
-    kwargs = {'errors': 'surrogateescape'} if mode is not 'rb' else {}
+    kwargs = {'errors': 'surrogateescape'} if mode != 'rb' else {}
     if filename.endswith('.bz2'):
         return bz2.BZ2File(filename, mode)
     elif filename.endswith('.gz'):