From 73c92f6539c9673a8ed19da3fbdd0d59359d65fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kgoebber <kevin.goebbert@valpo.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:30:31 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix lint issue

---
 src/metpy/io/_tools.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/metpy/io/_tools.py b/src/metpy/io/_tools.py
index bf644a5b07..d660869d47 100644
--- 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'):