YAML `--preserve-quotes`, changing quotes vs removing quotes

[Avasam]

I'd like to be able to enforce consistent single vs double quotes (whichever, idc). But I'd also like for existing quotes to not be removed. Especially for version numbers we pre-emptively quote some entries to avoid accidentally writing something like python: 3.10 (which is actually 3.1, not 3.10 !) when upgrading from python 3.9, for example.

[macisamuele]

Thanks for the report. Is this problem still active? If so, could you share a minimal reproducer of the issue?

[Avasam]

.pre-commint-config.yaml

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/macisamuele/language-formatters-pre-commit-hooks
    rev: v2.8.0
    hooks:
      - id: pretty-format-yaml
        args: [--autofix, --indent, "2", --offset, "0", --line-width, "120"]

.github/workflows/typecheck.yaml

name: Typecheck

on:
  workflow_dispatch: #  Allows manual triggers
  push:
    branches:
      - main
    paths:
      - "**.py"
      - "**.pyi"
      - "**/requirements*.txt"
      - "**/pyproject.toml"
      - ".github/workflows/typecheck.yaml"
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
    paths:
      - "**.py"
      - "**.pyi"
      - "**/requirements*.txt"
      - "**/pyproject.toml"
      - ".github/workflows/typecheck.yaml" # I want these quotes to stay

env:
  PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK: 1
  FORCE_COLOR: 1

jobs:
  pyright:
    name: Run pyright
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
      with:
        python-version: "3.8" # I want these quotes to stay
        cache: pip
        cache-dependency-path: "**/requirements*.txt"
    - run: pip install -r requirements.txt
    - uses: jakebailey/pyright-action@v1
      with:
        project: ./Dolphin scripts/pyproject.toml

In the example above, " is changed to ', that's fine, I want them to be consistent (to either quotes idc). But I don't want quotes to be removed. If I use --preserve-quotes to keep the quotes, then existing ones aren't standardized.

[macisamuele]

Thanks for sharing more details, I'll be trying to see the effects of the pre-commit hooks in the provided yaml content.

In terms of preserve quotes, the idea is to keep the quotes on the original source code rather than standardising them to single or double quotes. The reason for this is that ideally no explicit quotes would be needed if no ambiguity is present.