Linting

We use ruff for linting and formatting of our Python code. It should install along with the rest of the dependencies if you install requirements-local.txt.

To use the linter, run ./lint.sh from the project root directory. This is currently equivalent to ruff check && ruff format. To automate this, you can run ./install-lint-hook.sh from the project root directory. This will symlink .git/hooks/pre-commit to lint.sh, causing it to run before every commit. Note that you can only have one pre-commit hook per local repository, so if you're using another piece of software like pre-commit, you'll need to make them play nice.