Pre-commit-hook for Python project

Question

How do I remove print statements in a Python project using pre-commit hook before checking in code to GitHub? Currently, I use black and flake8 pre-commit hooks. But they don't seem to have the option to check and remove print statements before checking in code.

Answer 1

Since the pre-commit framework only calls flake8 , you would need to check its configuration to see if there is any setting which would trigger a print statement deletion (as opposed to error/violation codes )

Since that is not supported by flake8 itself, you would need to develop a plugin to flake8 in order to act on those error and delete the print lines.
If you do, don't forget to add the changes, as explained in " Can you change a file content during git commit ? "

Answer 2

Here is extension for flake8: https://pypi.org/project/flake8-print/