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.github/workflows/dependabot.yml

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+name: Dependabot auto-merge
+on: pull_request
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  dependabot:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]'
+    steps:
+      - name: Enable auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
+        run: gh pr merge --auto --merge "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+      - name: Approve a PR
+        run: gh pr review --approve "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

.pre-commit-config.yaml

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+exclude: "^$|venv|.obsidian"
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.6.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: check-docstring-first
+      - id: check-json
+      - id: check-added-large-files
+      - id: check-yaml
+      - id: debug-statements
+  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 24.4.2
+    hooks:
+      - id: black
+        language_version: python3.12
+  - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/autoflake
+    rev: v2.3.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: autoflake
+        args: [--remove-all-unused-imports, --in-place]
+  - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort
+    rev: 5.13.2
+    hooks:
+      - id: isort
+        args: ["--profile", "black", "--filter-files", "--line-length=79"]
+        language_version: python3.12
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
+    rev: v1.10.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: mypy
+        additional_dependencies: [types-requests, types-PyYAML, types-Flask, types-Werkzeug,
+          types-Markdown]
+  - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
+    rev: v3.15.2
+    hooks:
+      - id: pyupgrade
+        args:
+          - --py38-plus
+  - repo: https://github.com/andreoliwa/nitpick
+    rev: v0.35.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: nitpick
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pygrep-hooks
+    rev: v1.10.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: python-check-blanket-noqa
+      - id: python-check-mock-methods
+      - id: python-no-eval
+      - id: python-no-log-warn
+      - id: rst-backticks
+default_language_version:
+  python: python3.11

README

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 See LICENCE-prefork for original licence from Sourceforge and LICENCE covers any changes made in this repository.
 
-Homepage of the R2R Framework: 
+Homepage of the R2R Framework:
 
   http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/r2r/