Minor code cleanups

ci/order-crates-for-publishing.py

@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ def load_metadata():
     return json.loads(subprocess.Popen(
         cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0])
 
-no_explicit_version_specified = '*'
-
-
 # Consider a situation where a crate wants to use developing-oriented code
 # inside their integration tests and benchmarks, like creating malformed
 # data or omitting signature verifications. Ideally, the code should be
@@ -51,13 +48,14 @@ def load_metadata():
 # special-cased dev dependencies from its `dependency_graph` and further
 # processing.
 def is_self_dev_dep_with_dev_context_only_utils(package, dependency):
-    is_special_cased = False
+    no_explicit_version = '*'
 
+    is_special_cased = False
     if (dependency['kind'] == 'dev' and
         dependency['name'] == package['name'] and
         'dev-context-only-utils' in dependency['features'] and
         'path' in dependency):
-        if dependency['req'] == no_explicit_version_specified:
+        if dependency['req'] == no_explicit_version:
             is_special_cased = True
         else:
             # it's likely `{ workspace = true, ... }` is used, which implicitly pulls the