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 Running linters locally
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-For linting we will use [prospector](https://pypi.org/project/prospector/) and to sort imports we will use [isort](https://pycqa.github.io/isort/).
+For linting we will use `prospector <https://pypi.org/project/prospector/>`_ and to sort imports we will use `isort <https://pycqa.github.io/isort/>`_.
 Running the linters requires an activated virtual environment with the development tools installed.
 
 .. code:: shell