It is recommended to run pre-commit install in a terminal under the main DESC directory.

Then anytime you commit with git commit the linting suite will run automatically.

To manually generate a linting report you need to execute the shell script run_flake8_linting.sh by typing sh run_flake8_linting.sh in a terminal from the devtools directory.

This will generate the flake8_errors.output and flake8_summary.output files.

Currently, black is still ran through GitHub actions.

Most formatting-level errors are being suppressed; errors that touch the code logic are primarily the ones being raised.

flake8_errors.output will contain a line-by-line listing of errors flake8_summary.output will total these up into categories in a quick summary

Currently, error messages about whitespace and indenting that black does not care about have been suppressed. These will be fixed in a future cleanup branch. More errors can be added to the [flake8] section of settings.cfg after "ignore=", separated by commas.