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Re:Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter by mlevental on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:29PM (#19941117)
who cares what it looks like. it's meaningless (as long as it doesn't break things, which black doesn't). the only thing that matters is consistency.
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Re:Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter by darepublic on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:46PM (#19941294)
the outputted code should at least be decently readable and predictable, otherwise I don't see the point of having a formatter at all.
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Re:Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter by mlevental on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:03PM (#19942030)
>the outputted code should at least be decently readable

black isn't an uglifier/minifier. it's undoubtedly readable.

>predictable

why?

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