Another plus one for Black, without getting too into the weeds. I think the time is will save likely outweigh the valid concerns posted here. I've used Black extensively on several projects, and much like f-strings, the last Pink Floyd album, and broccoli, have found I really like something I didn't think I would.
I've gone through the churn of style edits each time I've made a PR to Django, despite using flake8. Having an automated tool to avoid that back-and-forth time would be a big help. It would also help reduce feelings of impostor syndrome; I know I've kicked myself for making basic formatting mistakes. Submitting to a project like Django can be intimidating, and this would remove some of the intimidation factor. I like to ask with every major change, "What does it mean for the newcomer?" Much like the new 2.0 URL routing syntax, I think this is a slam-dunk. While I prefer longer line lengths, I agree we should just stick with Black's defaults. Their commentary on the choice of 88 characters is compelling: it saves quite a bit of space over PEP-8's 79, but stays readable for the greater majority of people. Keeping the code base accessible to as many as possible is a big plus. I also find that with 88 character limits, I can keep three files open on a 16x9 screen in an editor, which is a nice editor workspace while working on Django (models file, views file, template). While Black may change in the future, I doubt the changes would be so large as to cause us to need another "huge commit and merge." Regards, Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/3b3f2605-f10e-4262-8547-c854c5cad644%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
