diff --git a/lib/analyzer/image-inspector.ts b/lib/analyzer/image-inspector.ts
index ce11c78a..b5091e2e 100644
--- a/lib/analyzer/image-inspector.ts
+++ b/lib/analyzer/image-inspector.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ async function pullWithDockerBinary(
   password: string | undefined,
   platform: string | undefined,
 ): Promise<boolean> {
-  let pullAndSaveSuccessful = false;
   try {
     if (username || password) {
       debug(
@@ -57,13 +56,12 @@ async function pullWithDockerBinary(
     }
     await docker.pullCli(targetImage, { platform });
     await docker.save(targetImage, saveLocation);
-    return (pullAndSaveSuccessful = true);
+    return true;
   } catch (err) {
     debug(`couldn't pull ${targetImage} using docker binary: ${err.message}`);
-
     handleDockerPullError(err.stderr, platform);
 
-    return pullAndSaveSuccessful;
+    return false;
   }
 }
 
@@ -81,10 +79,9 @@ function handleDockerPullError(err: string, platform?: string) {
     "manifest unknown",
   ];
   if (unknownManifestConditions.some((value) => err.includes(value))) {
-    if (platform) {
-      throw new Error(`The image does not exist for ${platform}`);
-    }
-    throw new Error(`The image does not exist for the current platform`);
+    throw new Error(
+      `The image does not exist for ${platform ?? "the current platform"}`,
+    );
   }
 
   if (err.includes("invalid reference format")) {
diff --git a/lib/inputs/file-pattern/static.ts b/lib/inputs/file-pattern/static.ts
index 3f307fb8..11f0a15d 100644
--- a/lib/inputs/file-pattern/static.ts
+++ b/lib/inputs/file-pattern/static.ts
@@ -5,25 +5,20 @@ import { ExtractAction, ExtractedLayers } from "../../extractor/types";
 import { streamToString } from "../../stream-utils";
 import { ManifestFile } from "../../types";
 
+/**
+ * Return false if any exclusion pattern matches,
+ * return true if any inclusion pattern matches
+ */
 function generatePathMatcher(
   globsInclude: string[],
   globsExclude: string[],
 ): (filePath: string) => boolean {
   return (filePath: string): boolean => {
-    let exclude = false;
-    for (const g of globsExclude) {
-      if (!exclude && minimatch(filePath, g)) {
-        exclude = true;
-      }
-    }
-    if (!exclude) {
-      for (const g of globsInclude) {
-        if (minimatch(filePath, g)) {
-          return true;
-        }
-      }
+    if (globsExclude.some((glob) => minimatch(filePath, glob))) {
+      return false;
     }
-    return false;
+
+    return globsInclude.some((glob) => minimatch(filePath, glob));
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/python-parser/requirements-parser.ts b/lib/python-parser/requirements-parser.ts
index 8fc4d136..a9b7350c 100644
--- a/lib/python-parser/requirements-parser.ts
+++ b/lib/python-parser/requirements-parser.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ export function getRequirements(fileContent: string): PythonRequirement[] {
 
 function parseLine(line: string): PythonRequirement | null {
   line = line.trim();
-  if (line.length === 0) {
+  // there's no point in calling the regex if the line is a comment
+  if (line.length === 0 || line.startsWith("#")) {
     return null;
   }
   const parsedLine = VERSION_PARSE_REGEX.exec(line);
@@ -23,10 +24,9 @@ function parseLine(line: string): PythonRequirement | null {
     return null;
   }
   const { name, extras, specifier, version } = parsedLine.groups;
-  const correctedSpecifier = specifierValidRange(specifier, version);
   return {
     name: name.toLowerCase(),
-    specifier: correctedSpecifier,
+    specifier: specifierValidRange(specifier, version),
     version,
     extras: parseExtraNames(extras),
   } as PythonRequirement;