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Re:Django: Reformatted code with Black by spc476 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:17PM (#30267341)
Yes, it's opinionated, but who's opinion got carved into stone?
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Re:Django: Reformatted code with Black by belval on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:11AM (#30273504)
That does not really matter as long as the default are somewhat sensible. As far as I can tell Black's are.

gofmt is also opiniated. Someone somewhere picked the defaults and maybe I disagree with those defaults, but in the grand scheme of things, all go code is more approachable because it all looks the same. That to me, is worth a lot more than having my favorite format be the one on top.

EDIT: If you want to discuss the actual merits of Black, you can read their style page that actually explains every choice they made: https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/...

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Re:Django: Reformatted code with Black by frosted-flakes on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:13PM (#30268295)
Does it matter?
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Re:Django: Reformatted code with Black by spc476 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:58AM (#30270513)
Well, someone convinced the Python community that their coding standard should be the one coding standard.
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