diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cf3265efe..e17694723 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ select = [
     "UP", # pyupgrade
     "RUF", # ruff
     "W",  # pycodestyle
+    "PIE", # flake8-pie
 ]
 ignore = [
     # bugbear ignore
diff --git a/src/_pytest/_py/path.py b/src/_pytest/_py/path.py
index 554cb4a67..7701561d9 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/_py/path.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/_py/path.py
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ class LocalPath:
 
     def ensure_dir(self, *args):
         """Ensure the path joined with args is a directory."""
-        return self.ensure(*args, **{"dir": True})
+        return self.ensure(*args, dir=True)
 
     def bestrelpath(self, dest):
         """Return a string which is a relative path from self
diff --git a/testing/test_assertion.py b/testing/test_assertion.py
index 2d92128fb..ef4e36644 100644
--- a/testing/test_assertion.py
+++ b/testing/test_assertion.py
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ class TestAssert_reprcompare:
 
     def test_list_dont_wrap_strings(self) -> None:
         long_a = "a" * 10
-        l1 = ["a"] + [long_a for _ in range(0, 7)]
+        l1 = ["a"] + [long_a for _ in range(7)]
         l2 = ["should not get wrapped"]
         diff = callequal(l1, l2, verbose=True)
         assert diff == [
diff --git a/testing/test_config.py b/testing/test_config.py
index f2651dbeb..ead693cf4 100644
--- a/testing/test_config.py
+++ b/testing/test_config.py
@@ -1231,8 +1231,7 @@ def test_plugin_loading_order(pytester: Pytester) -> None:
             import myplugin
             assert myplugin.terminal_plugin == [False, True]
         """,
-        **{
-            "myplugin": """
+        myplugin="""
             terminal_plugin = []
 
             def pytest_configure(config):
@@ -1241,8 +1240,7 @@ def test_plugin_loading_order(pytester: Pytester) -> None:
             def pytest_sessionstart(session):
                 config = session.config
                 terminal_plugin.append(bool(config.pluginmanager.get_plugin("terminalreporter")))
-            """
-        },
+            """,
     )
     pytester.syspathinsert()
     result = pytester.runpytest("-p", "myplugin", str(p1))
diff --git a/testing/test_skipping.py b/testing/test_skipping.py
index 4391c0642..3f1c83f5b 100644
--- a/testing/test_skipping.py
+++ b/testing/test_skipping.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class TestEvaluation:
             """@pytest.mark.skipif("not hasattr(os, 'murks')")""",
             """@pytest.mark.skipif(condition="hasattr(os, 'murks')")""",
         ]
-        for i in range(0, 2):
+        for i in range(2):
             item = pytester.getitem(
                 f"""
                 import pytest