.gitignore

+
+# ========================== python stuff ===========================
+*.pyc
+
+# ========================== batch stuff ===========================
+batch-user-conf.xml
+
+# ========================== compiled stuff ===========================
+bin/
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.pre-commit-config.yaml

+minimum_pre_commit_version: 2.12.0
+default_language_version:
+    python: python3.8
+files: 'zUtil_Python/.+'
+exclude: |
+    (?x)^(
+        .+\.m|
+        .+\.cpp|
+        .+\.css|
+        .+\.cxx|
+        .+\.txx|
+        .+\.h|
+        .+\.tex|
+        .+\.cc|
+        .+\.txt|
+        .+\.bib|
+        .+\.html|
+        .+\.xml|
+        .+\.pl
+    )$
+fail_fast: false
+repos:
+-   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v3.4.0
+    hooks:
+    -   id: check-yaml
+    -   id: end-of-file-fixer
+    -   id: trailing-whitespace
+-   repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 20.8b1 # Replace by any tag/version: https://github.com/psf/black/tags
+    hooks:
+    -   id: black
+        language_version: python3.8 # Should be a command that runs python3.6+
+-   repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
+    rev: '3.9.0'  # pick a git hash / tag to point to
+    hooks:
+    -   id: flake8
+    
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README.txt

@@ -110,3 +110,45 @@ $ python /users/user1/dct/dct_launch.py
 
  9. For more information or support, contact graintracking@esrf.fr
 
+
+# dev
+
+## pre-commit hooks
+
+[pre-commit's official website](https://pre-commit.com/)
+
+first, let's create an isolated environment for pre-commit
+
+```
+# using a conda installation that I found at `cat $(which silx)` 
+os=$(/csadmin/common/scripts/get_os) 
+source /sware/isdd/packages/${os}/dau/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
+
+# create an empty installation of python 3.8
+# src: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37216638/9582881
+conda create --yes --prefix $HOME/.pre-commit-env -c conda-forge python=3.8 pre-commit
+```
+
+Make the pre-commit executable accessible locally:
+
+```
+# link the executable to your local path
+ln -s ~/.pre-commit-env/bin/pre-commit ~/.local/bin/
+```
+
+Now check that you have pre-commit properly installed:
+
+```
+which pre-commit 
+# should be like /nana/ni/nana/na/.local/bin/pre-commit
+
+pre-commit -V
+# should be  >= 2.12.0 
+```
+
+Finally, let's activate it for the project:
+
+```
+cd ~/dct  # or wherever you put it...
+pre-commit install
+```

pyproject.toml

+[tool.black]
+line-length = 127
+target-version = ['py36', 'py37', 'py38']
+include = '\.pyi?$'
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setup.cfg

+[flake8]
+max-line-length = 127
+max-complexity = 10
+ignore = E203, E266, E501, W503, F403, F401