On 29/03/2021 23.15, Matt Wheeler wrote: >> On 29 Mar 2021, at 04:45, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: >> >> yapf has many tunings. Worth a look. It is my preferred formatter. By >> comparison, black is both opinionated and has basicly no tuning, >> something I greatly dislike. > > This is not a mark or a vote against yapf (I’ve never used it), but I think > Black’s lack of tuning is one of its greatest strengths. > I’ve found in 2 teams in 2 very different companies, implementing `black > —check` in CI made the code review process significantly more pleasant for > both reviewers and review-ees. > > I don’t know for sure, but I think the opinionated nature of Black was what > enabled us to actually get the implementation off the ground (in company 1 > several other attempts to get a code formatter running across the board had > failed over the years). We completely sidestepped any discussion about which > features of $tool were going to be enabled or not. > > Black has a couple of minor opinions that I disagree with, but the net > benefit of having everyone producing code in the same style (and importantly > no-one having to *think* about the style while coding) vastly outweighs any > annoyance I might have with those minor points, to the extent that I can’t > actually remember what those disagreements are.
+1 (although not for Black - sorry) Very good point: I'd much rather you spent time helping me with a design/coding problem, helping debug, and/or reviewing/improving my code (and I for you); than we had not time left-over after spending many hours and much mental energy arguing about whether this format is [more] right than that! -- Regards, =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
