Code quality packages in local.txt

[jkaeske]

Hey there,

I was wondering why the code quality tools like black and isort are listed additionally in the local.txt file.
They are specified in the pre-commit config file with the according versions.
That should be enough, right, or am I missing something?

Thanks a lot!

[browniebroke]

Great question!

It should be enough, yes: for my personal projects, I moved away from specifying these in my local deps. However, on a team project I'm working on, most people use VSCode with devcontainers and they run these tools inside their containers, as opposed to on the host machine, like I do.

I'm curious to hear what the community does and if there are other pros and cons...

[foarsitter]

In using these tools outside of pre-commit so therefore I like to have them locally.

For some other projects pre-commit even points to the local executables like this:

repos:
  - repo: local
    hooks:
      - id: bandit
        name: bandit
        entry: bandit
        language: system
        types: [python]
        require_serial: true
        args: ["-c", "bandit.yml"]
      - id: black
        name: black
        entry: black
        language: system
        types: [python]
        require_serial: true

In the end I don't care about it as long it gives me the correct outcome.

[foarsitter]

In addition to above: I have never run these tools inside a docker container.