Re:Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
by zestyping on Friday May 25, 2018 @10:02PM
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The whole idea is to _prevent_ people from thinking about formatting, by actually making it impossible to make any formatting decisions. There's exactly one way to format the program and that's it. It's draconian, but that's what's great about it.
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Re:Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
by uryga on Saturday May 26, 2018 @08:07PM
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That's the feeling I got from the readme, but GP sounds like this particular decision was made not so much for 'philosophical' reasons, as because Black-ing a file twice might give different results. I was curious why :)