IMO, if you care enough to not like black's formatting choices, you probably shouldn't use it. The point of black is to *not* care about formatting, but leave the decisions to the tool. If you're not doing that, then it's probably the wrong tool for you. There may be other code formatters that are more configurable - I honestly don't know - and which therefore may be more useful to you once configured to your liking. But black is (as I understand it) about *not* worrying about formatting choices, so you can get on to other more important decisions.
Personally, I don't really like some of black's choices. So I only use it on projects where I'm tired of worrying about formatting and readability and just want something that's OK. Over time, I'm finding that's true of more and more of my projects :-) Regarding your question on spaces, I like some of your spacing choices, but not all of them. So we could have a debate over precisely which spaces I agree with and which I don't. But I'm not really interested in doing that. Black would probably help if we had to work together, but unless we do, you can do what you want and I won't mind :-) Paul On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 15:22, <lizhollinshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What do people think about black? > > I'm asking because one of my personal preferences is to use spaces for > clarity: > > 1. right = mystr[ start : ] > > black version right=mystr[start:] > > 2. mtime = time.asctime( time.localtime( info.st_mtime ) ) > > black version mtime = time.asctime(time.localtime(info.st_mtime)) > > Is there a reason why PEP8 doesn't like these spaces? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
