Added pre-commit support and removed unnecessary files

.github/workflows/check_and_deploy.yml

@@ -43,12 +43,25 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          mkdir summary
+          set +e
+          mkdir summary > /dev/null 2>&1 || echo
           pytest --cov=python_ci_base --cov-report=markdown-append:summary/coverage.md --markdown-summary-file=summary/summary.md
-          echo -e "# Summary\n" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
-          cat summary/summary.md >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
-          echo -e "\n# Coverage\n" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
-          cat summary/coverage.md >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+          EXIT_CODE=$?
+
+          set -e
+
+          if (( $EXIT_CODE == 5 )); then
+            echo "The test suite was empty. No summary generated."
+            echo -e "# Summary\n" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+            echo -e "\n# Coverage\n" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+          elif (( $EXIT_CODE == 0 )); then
+            echo -e "# Summary\n" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+            cat summary/summary.md >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+            echo -e "\n# Coverage\n" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+            cat summary/coverage.md >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+          else
+            exit $ExitCode
+          fi
 
 # TODO: uncomment if you want to automate deployment to TestPyPI and PyPI
 

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v6.0.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-yaml
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
+    rev: v0.16.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: ruff-check
+        args: [ --output-format=github, --target-version=py314 ]
+      - id: ruff-format
+        args: [ --diff, --target-version=py314 ]
+
+  - repo: local
+    hooks:
+      - id: mypy
+        name: MyPy
+        language: python
+        entry: mypy
+        additional_dependencies: [ '.[pre_commit]' ]
+        types: [python]

README.md

@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 
 The template sets up a simple continuous integration-pipeline for Python 3.14.
 
-For every push and pull request, linting, format checking, static type checking, and tests are invoked:
+For every pre-commit, push and pull request, linting, format checking, and static type checking are invoked:
 * Ruff: Linting, Formatting
 * MyPy: Code checking
+
+Additionally, tests are run for pushes and pull requests (but not pre-hook):
 * Tests: PyTest (with coverage)
 
 The test summary and coverage are reported as an artifact.
@@ -23,6 +25,11 @@ Deployment to PyPI and TestPyPI is optional (see below).
   pass
 * Replace ``python_ci_base`` with the name of your app on all files and ``AUTHOR`` with your name 
 * Always use typing (if not, delete the py.typed file inside your package)
+* Install pre-commit hooks:
+  ```
+  pip install pre-commit
+  pre-commit install
+  ```
 
 If you want to enable automatic deployment to PyPI, proceed with the following steps:
 

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def extract_info(*path: str, default: str = '') -> Any:
 autosummary_generate = True
 
 templates_path = ['_templates']
-exclude_patterns = []
+exclude_patterns: list[str] = []
 
 
 # -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------