autoflake VS pre-commit

Ruff is not only much faster, but it is also very convenient to have an all-in-one solution that replaces multiple other widely used tools: Flake8 (linter), isort (imports sorting), Black (code formatter), autoflake, many Flake8 plugins and more. And it has drop-in parity with these tools, so it is really straightforward to migrate from them to Ruff.

Ruff can be used to replace Flake8 (plus dozens of plugins), isort, pydocstyle, yesqa, eradicate, pyupgrade, and autoflake, all while executing tens or hundreds of times faster than any individual tool.

Having unused imports in a Python file is a prevalent issue, with a very easy solution: autoflake. Running it over your files will remove any unused imports in place.

cleanimports: runs isort and removes unused imports with Autoflake. Be sure to set up profile=black in isort settings to avoid conflicts with Black.

We use isort[0] for this. It even has a "black" compatible profile that line spits along black's defaults. Additionally we use autoflake[1] to remove unused import statements in place.

[0](https://github.com/PyCQA/isort)

[1](https://github.com/PyCQA/autoflake)

yaml repos: - repo: https://github.com/myint/autoflake rev: v1.4 hooks: - id: autoflake args: - --in-place - --remove-all-unused-imports - --expand-star-imports - --remove-duplicate-keys - --remove-unused-variables - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade rev: v2.29.0 hooks: - id: pyupgrade args: [--py36-plus] - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort rev: 5.9.3 hooks: - id: isort - repo: https://github.com/psf/black rev: 21.10b0 hooks: - id: black args: [--safe, --quiet] - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8 rev: 4.0.1 hooks: - id: flake8 - repo: local hooks: - id: pylint name: pylint entry: pylint language: system types: [python] args: [ "-rn", "-sn", ] - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy rev: v0.910-1 hooks: - id: mypy name: mypy entry: mypy language: python types: [python] args: [] require_serial: true - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-prettier rev: v2.4.1 hooks: - id: prettier args: [--prose-wrap=always, --print-width=88]

autoflake 400+⭐️

Today we are going to look at how to setup Black (a python code formatter) and pre-commit (a package for handling git hooks in python) to automatically format you code on commit.

# See https://pre-commit.com for more information # See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v3.2.0 hooks: - id: trailing-whitespace - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: check-yaml - id: check-toml - id: check-added-large-files - repo: local hooks: - id: tox lint name: tox-validation entry: pdm run tox -e test,lint language: system files: ^src\/.+py$|pyproject.toml|^tests\/.+py$ types_or: [python, toml] pass_filenames: false - id: tox docs name: tox-docs language: system entry: pdm run tox -e docs types_or: [python, rst, toml] files: ^src\/.+py$|pyproject.toml|^docs\/ pass_filenames: false - repo: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm rev: 2.10.4 # a PDM release exposing the hook hooks: - id: pdm-lock-check - repo: https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks rev: 3.0.0 hooks: - id: markdownlint

Pre-commit hooks act as the first line of defense in maintaining code quality, seamlessly integrating with linters and code formatters. They automatically execute these tools each time a developer tries to commit code to the repository, ensuring the code adheres to the project's standards. If the hooks detect issues, the commit is paused until the issues are resolved, guaranteeing that only code meeting quality standards makes it into the repository.

Pre-commit Hooks: Pre-commit is a tool that can be set up to enforce coding rules and standards before you commit your changes to your code repository. This ensures that you can't even check in (commit) code that doesn't meet your standards. This allows a code reviewer to focus on the architecture of a change while not wasting time with trivial style nitpicks.

Ah, fair enough!

On my team we use pre-commit[0] a lot. I guess I would define the history to be something like "has this commit ever been run through our pre-commit hooks?". If you rewrite history, you'll (usually) produce commits that have not been through pre-commit (and they've therefore dodged a lot of static checks that might catch code that wasn't working, at that point in time). That gives some manner of objectivity to the "history", although it does depend on each user having their pre-commit hooks activated in their local workspace.

[0]: https://pre-commit.com/

Pre-commit is a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. It supports hooks for various programming languages. Using this framework, you only have to specify a list of hooks you want to run before every commit, and pre-commit handles the installation and execution of those hooks despite your project’s primary language.

You can learn more here: pre-commit.com

Note this includes support for pre-commit.

As a nice next step, you could also add mypy to check your type hints are consistent, and automate running all this via pre-commit hooks set up with… pre-commit.