no-string-hints 0.2.0

A tool to automatically replace string literals in type annotations.

no-string-hints

A pre-commit hook to automatically remove string literals as type hints from argument, return, and class variable type annotations. Will only make the replacement if your file contains from __future__ import annotations.

Installation

pip install no-string-hints

As a pre-commit hook

See pre-commit for instructions

Sample .pre-commit-config.yaml:

-   repo: https://github.com/MarcoGorelli/no-string-hints
    rev: v0.2.0
    hooks:
    -   id: no-string-hints

Command-line example

$ cat myfile.py
myvar: 'str'
$ no_string_hints myfile.py
$ cat myfile.py
myvar: str

See also

Check out pyupgrade, which I learned a lot from when writing this.