feat: add pre-commit configuration

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# See https://pre-commit.com for more information
+# See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks
+repos:
+-   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.4.0
+    hooks:
+    -   id: trailing-whitespace
+    -   id: end-of-file-fixer
+    -   id: check-added-large-files
+-   repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 23.3.0
+    hooks:
+    -   id: black

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ pyNeuroML. Pull requests with enhancements and bug fixes are welcome.
 
 ## Pull Request Process
 
-1. Please ensure that the automated build for your pull request passes.
-2. Please pay attention to the results from flake8 and make any modifications
+1. Please contribute pull requests against the `development` branch.
+2. Please ensure that the automated build for your pull request passes.
+3. Please pay attention to the results from flake8 and make any modifications
    to ensure a consistent code style.
+
+## Pre-commit
+
+A number of [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com/) hooks are used to improve code-quality.
+Please run the following code to set up the pre-commit hooks:
+
+    $ pre-commit install

setup.cfg

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ dev =
     pytest
     pytest-cov
     kaleido
+    pre-commit
 
 experimental =
     pyNeuroML[dev]