Have a look at some of the newer linting options

[coretl]

For example:

• https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff instead of flake8
• https://github.com/omnilib/ufmt which does black and import sorting in one

Don't do this until vscode supports them

[coretl]

@evalott100 may be able to comment more

[coretl]

Also some of the recommendations here: https://scikit-hep.org/developer/reporeview?repo=DiamondLightSource%2Fpython3-pip-skeleton&branch=main

[evalott100]

Black and import sorting in the same tool would be handy. I'm always forgetting to run isort...

I'll make a branch testing these

[DominicOram]

https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/python3-pip-skeleton/pull/147 switched us to ruff so calling this closed