All patches and comments are welcome. Please squash your changes to logical
commits before using git-format-patch and git-send-email to
patches@git.madduck.net.
If you'd read over the Git project's submission guidelines and adhered to them,
I'd be especially grateful.
7 <!-- Include any especially major or disruptive changes here -->
11 <!-- Changes that affect Black's stable style -->
13 - Import lines with `# fmt: skip` and `# fmt: off` no longer have an extra blank line
14 added when they are right after another import line (#3610)
18 <!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
20 - Add trailing commas to collection literals even if there's a comment after the last
22 - `async def`, `async for`, and `async with` statements are now formatted consistently
23 compared to their non-async version. (#3609)
24 - `with` statements that contain two context managers will be consistently wrapped in
29 <!-- Changes to how Black can be configured -->
33 <!-- Changes to how Black is packaged, such as dependency requirements -->
37 <!-- Changes to the parser or to version autodetection -->
41 <!-- Changes that improve Black's performance. -->
45 <!-- Changes to Black's terminal output and error messages -->
49 <!-- Changes to blackd -->
53 <!-- For example, Docker, GitHub Actions, pre-commit, editors -->
57 <!-- Major changes to documentation and policies. Small docs changes
58 don't need a changelog entry. -->
64 This is the first release of 2023, and following our
65 [stability policy](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/index.html#stability-policy),
66 it comes with a number of improvements to our stable style, including improvements to
67 empty line handling, removal of redundant parentheses in several contexts, and output
68 that highlights implicitly concatenated strings better.
70 There are also many changes to the preview style; try out `black --preview` and give us
71 feedback to help us set the stable style for next year.
73 In addition to style changes, Black now automatically infers the supported Python
74 versions from your `pyproject.toml` file, removing the need to set Black's target
79 <!-- Changes that affect Black's stable style -->
81 - Introduce the 2023 stable style, which incorporates most aspects of last year's
82 preview style (#3418). Specific changes:
83 - Enforce empty lines before classes and functions with sticky leading comments
85 - Reformat empty and whitespace-only files as either an empty file (if no newline is
86 present) or as a single newline character (if a newline is present) (#3348)
88 - Implicitly concatenated strings used as function args are now wrapped inside
89 parentheses (#3307) (22.12.0)
90 - Correctly handle trailing commas that are inside a line's leading non-nested parens
92 - `--skip-string-normalization` / `-S` now prevents docstring prefixes from being
93 normalized as expected (#3168) (since 22.8.0)
94 - When using `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` or `-C`, trailing commas are stripped from
95 subscript expressions with more than 1 element (#3209) (22.8.0)
96 - Implicitly concatenated strings inside a list, set, or tuple are now wrapped inside
97 parentheses (#3162) (22.8.0)
98 - Fix a string merging/split issue when a comment is present in the middle of
99 implicitly concatenated strings on its own line (#3227) (22.8.0)
100 - Docstring quotes are no longer moved if it would violate the line length limit
101 (#3044, #3430) (22.6.0)
102 - Parentheses around return annotations are now managed (#2990) (22.6.0)
103 - Remove unnecessary parentheses around awaited objects (#2991) (22.6.0)
104 - Remove unnecessary parentheses in `with` statements (#2926) (22.6.0)
105 - Remove trailing newlines after code block open (#3035) (22.6.0)
106 - Code cell separators `#%%` are now standardised to `# %%` (#2919) (22.3.0)
107 - Remove unnecessary parentheses from `except` statements (#2939) (22.3.0)
108 - Remove unnecessary parentheses from tuple unpacking in `for` loops (#2945) (22.3.0)
109 - Avoid magic-trailing-comma in single-element subscripts (#2942) (22.3.0)
110 - Fix a crash when a colon line is marked between `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` (#3439)
114 <!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
116 - Format hex codes in unicode escape sequences in string literals (#2916)
117 - Add parentheses around `if`-`else` expressions (#2278)
118 - Improve performance on large expressions that contain many strings (#3467)
119 - Fix a crash in preview style with assert + parenthesized string (#3415)
120 - Fix crashes in preview style with walrus operators used in function return annotations
121 and except clauses (#3423)
122 - Fix a crash in preview advanced string processing where mixed implicitly concatenated
123 regular and f-strings start with an empty span (#3463)
124 - Fix a crash in preview advanced string processing where a standalone comment is placed
125 before a dict's value (#3469)
126 - Fix an issue where extra empty lines are added when a decorator has `# fmt: skip`
127 applied or there is a standalone comment between decorators (#3470)
128 - Do not put the closing quotes in a docstring on a separate line, even if the line is
130 - Long values in dict literals are now wrapped in parentheses; correspondingly
131 unnecessary parentheses around short values in dict literals are now removed; long
132 string lambda values are now wrapped in parentheses (#3440)
133 - Fix two crashes in preview style involving edge cases with docstrings (#3451)
134 - Exclude string type annotations from improved string processing; fix crash when the
135 return type annotation is stringified and spans across multiple lines (#3462)
136 - Wrap multiple context managers in parentheses when targeting Python 3.9+ (#3489)
137 - Fix several crashes in preview style with walrus operators used in `with` statements
139 - Fix an invalid quote escaping bug in f-string expressions where it produced invalid
140 code. Implicitly concatenated f-strings with different quotes can now be merged or
141 quote-normalized by changing the quotes used in expressions. (#3509)
142 - Fix crash on `await (yield)` when Black is compiled with mypyc (#3533)
143 - Improve handling of multiline strings by changing line split behavior (#1879)
147 <!-- Changes to how Black can be configured -->
149 - Black now tries to infer its `--target-version` from the project metadata specified in
150 `pyproject.toml` (#3219)
154 <!-- Changes to how Black is packaged, such as dependency requirements -->
156 - Upgrade mypyc from `0.971` to `0.991` so mypycified _Black_ can be built on armv7
158 - This also fixes some crashes while using compiled Black with a debug build of
160 - Drop specific support for the `tomli` requirement on 3.11 alpha releases, working
161 around a bug that would cause the requirement not to be installed on any non-final
162 Python releases (#3448)
163 - Black now depends on `packaging` version `22.0` or later. This is required for new
164 functionality that needs to parse part of the project metadata (#3219)
168 <!-- Changes to Black's terminal output and error messages -->
170 - Calling `black --help` multiple times will return the same help contents each time
172 - Verbose logging now shows the values of `pyproject.toml` configuration variables
174 - Fix false symlink detection messages in verbose output due to using an incorrect
175 relative path to the project root (#3385)
179 <!-- For example, Docker, GitHub Actions, pre-commit, editors -->
181 - Move 3.11 CI to normal flow now that all dependencies support 3.11 (#3446)
182 - Docker: Add new `latest_prerelease` tag automation to follow latest black alpha
183 release on docker images (#3465)
187 <!-- Major changes to documentation and policies. Small docs changes
188 don't need a changelog entry. -->
190 - Expand `vim-plug` installation instructions to offer more explicit options (#3468)
196 <!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
198 - Enforce empty lines before classes and functions with sticky leading comments (#3302)
199 - Reformat empty and whitespace-only files as either an empty file (if no newline is
200 present) or as a single newline character (if a newline is present) (#3348)
201 - Implicitly concatenated strings used as function args are now wrapped inside
203 - For assignment statements, prefer splitting the right hand side if the left hand side
204 fits on a single line (#3368)
205 - Correctly handle trailing commas that are inside a line's leading non-nested parens
210 <!-- Changes to how Black can be configured -->
212 - Fix incorrectly applied `.gitignore` rules by considering the `.gitignore` location
213 and the relative path to the target file (#3338)
214 - Fix incorrectly ignoring `.gitignore` presence when more than one source directory is
219 <!-- Changes to the parser or to version autodetection -->
221 - Parsing support has been added for walruses inside generator expression that are
222 passed as function args (for example,
223 `any(match := my_re.match(text) for text in texts)`) (#3327).
227 <!-- For example, Docker, GitHub Actions, pre-commit, editors -->
229 - Vim plugin: Optionally allow using the system installation of Black via
230 `let g:black_use_virtualenv = 0`(#3309)
236 - Runtime support for Python 3.6 has been removed. Formatting 3.6 code will still be
237 supported until further notice.
241 - Fix a crash when `# fmt: on` is used on a different block level than `# fmt: off`
246 - Fix a crash when formatting some dicts with parenthesis-wrapped long string keys
251 - `.ipynb_checkpoints` directories are now excluded by default (#3293)
252 - Add `--skip-source-first-line` / `-x` option to ignore the first line of source code
253 while formatting (#3299)
257 - Executables made with PyInstaller will no longer crash when formatting several files
258 at once on macOS. Native x86-64 executables for macOS are available once again.
260 - Hatchling is now used as the build backend. This will not have any effect for users
261 who install Black with its wheels from PyPI. (#3233)
262 - Faster compiled wheels are now available for CPython 3.11 (#3276)
266 - Windows style (CRLF) newlines will be preserved (#3257).
270 - Vim plugin: add flag (`g:black_preview`) to enable/disable the preview style (#3246)
271 - Update GitHub Action to support formatting of Jupyter Notebook files via a `jupyter`
273 - Update GitHub Action to support use of version specifiers (e.g. `<23`) for Black
280 - Python 3.11 is now supported, except for _blackd_ as aiohttp does not support 3.11 as
281 of publishing (#3234)
282 - This is the last release that supports running _Black_ on Python 3.6 (formatting 3.6
283 code will continue to be supported until further notice)
284 - Reword the stability policy to say that we may, in rare cases, make changes that
285 affect code that was not previously formatted by _Black_ (#3155)
289 - Fix an infinite loop when using `# fmt: on/off` in the middle of an expression or code
291 - Fix incorrect handling of `# fmt: skip` on colon (`:`) lines (#3148)
292 - Comments are no longer deleted when a line had spaces removed around power operators
297 - Single-character closing docstring quotes are no longer moved to their own line as
298 this is invalid. This was a bug introduced in version 22.6.0. (#3166)
299 - `--skip-string-normalization` / `-S` now prevents docstring prefixes from being
300 normalized as expected (#3168)
301 - When using `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` or `-C`, trailing commas are stripped from
302 subscript expressions with more than 1 element (#3209)
303 - Implicitly concatenated strings inside a list, set, or tuple are now wrapped inside
305 - Fix a string merging/split issue when a comment is present in the middle of implicitly
306 concatenated strings on its own line (#3227)
310 - `blackd` now supports enabling the preview style via the `X-Preview` header (#3217)
314 - Black now uses the presence of debug f-strings to detect target version (#3215)
315 - Fix misdetection of project root and verbose logging of sources in cases involving
316 `--stdin-filename` (#3216)
317 - Immediate `.gitignore` files in source directories given on the command line are now
318 also respected, previously only `.gitignore` files in the project root and
319 automatically discovered directories were respected (#3237)
323 - Recommend using BlackConnect in IntelliJ IDEs (#3150)
327 - Vim plugin: prefix messages with `Black: ` so it's clear they come from Black (#3194)
328 - Docker: changed to a /opt/venv installation + added to PATH to be available to
329 non-root users (#3202)
333 - Change from deprecated `asyncio.get_event_loop()` to create our event loop which
334 removes DeprecationWarning (#3164)
335 - Remove logging from internal `blib2to3` library since it regularly emits error logs
336 about failed caching that can and should be ignored (#3193)
340 - Type comments are now included in the AST equivalence check consistently so accidental
341 deletion raises an error. Though type comments can't be tracked when running on PyPy
342 3.7 due to standard library limitations. (#2874)
346 - Reduce Black's startup time when formatting a single file by 15-30% (#3211)
352 - Fix unstable formatting involving `#fmt: skip` and `# fmt:skip` comments (notice the
353 lack of spaces) (#2970)
357 - Docstring quotes are no longer moved if it would violate the line length limit (#3044)
358 - Parentheses around return annotations are now managed (#2990)
359 - Remove unnecessary parentheses around awaited objects (#2991)
360 - Remove unnecessary parentheses in `with` statements (#2926)
361 - Remove trailing newlines after code block open (#3035)
365 - Add `scripts/migrate-black.py` script to ease introduction of Black to a Git project
370 - Output Python version and implementation as part of `--version` flag (#2997)
374 - Use `tomli` instead of `tomllib` on Python 3.11 builds where `tomllib` is not
379 - [PEP 654](https://peps.python.org/pep-0654/#except) syntax (for example,
380 `except *ExceptionGroup:`) is now supported (#3016)
381 - [PEP 646](https://peps.python.org/pep-0646) syntax (for example,
382 `Array[Batch, *Shape]` or `def fn(*args: *T) -> None`) is now supported (#3071)
386 - Fix `strtobool` function. It didn't parse true/on/false/off. (#3025)
392 - Code cell separators `#%%` are now standardised to `# %%` (#2919)
393 - Remove unnecessary parentheses from `except` statements (#2939)
394 - Remove unnecessary parentheses from tuple unpacking in `for` loops (#2945)
395 - Avoid magic-trailing-comma in single-element subscripts (#2942)
399 - Do not format `__pypackages__` directories by default (#2836)
400 - Add support for specifying stable version with `--required-version` (#2832).
401 - Avoid crashing when the user has no homedir (#2814)
402 - Avoid crashing when md5 is not available (#2905)
403 - Fix handling of directory junctions on Windows (#2904)
407 - Update pylint config documentation (#2931)
411 - Move test to disable plugin in Vim/Neovim, which speeds up loading (#2896)
415 - In verbose mode, log when _Black_ is using user-level config (#2861)
419 - Fix Black to work with Click 8.1.0 (#2966)
420 - On Python 3.11 and newer, use the standard library's `tomllib` instead of `tomli`
422 - `black-primer`, the deprecated internal devtool, has been removed and copied to a
423 [separate repository](https://github.com/cooperlees/black-primer) (#2924)
427 - Black can now parse starred expressions in the target of `for` and `async for`
428 statements, e.g `for item in *items_1, *items_2: pass` (#2879).
432 At long last, _Black_ is no longer a beta product! This is the first non-beta release
433 and the first release covered by our new
434 [stability policy](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/index.html#stability-policy).
438 - **Remove Python 2 support** (#2740)
439 - Introduce the `--preview` flag (#2752)
443 - Deprecate `--experimental-string-processing` and move the functionality under
445 - For stubs, one blank line between class attributes and methods is now kept if there's
446 at least one pre-existing blank line (#2736)
447 - Black now normalizes string prefix order (#2297)
448 - Remove spaces around power operators if both operands are simple (#2726)
449 - Work around bug that causes unstable formatting in some cases in the presence of the
450 magic trailing comma (#2807)
451 - Use parentheses for attribute access on decimal float and int literals (#2799)
452 - Don't add whitespace for attribute access on hexadecimal, binary, octal, and complex
454 - Treat blank lines in stubs the same inside top-level `if` statements (#2820)
455 - Fix unstable formatting with semicolons and arithmetic expressions (#2817)
456 - Fix unstable formatting around magic trailing comma (#2572)
460 - Fix mapping cases that contain as-expressions, like `case {"key": 1 | 2 as password}`
462 - Fix cases that contain multiple top-level as-expressions, like `case 1 as a, 2 as b`
464 - Fix call patterns that contain as-expressions with keyword arguments, like
465 `case Foo(bar=baz as quux)` (#2749)
466 - Tuple unpacking on `return` and `yield` constructs now implies 3.8+ (#2700)
467 - Unparenthesized tuples on annotated assignments (e.g
468 `values: Tuple[int, ...] = 1, 2, 3`) now implies 3.8+ (#2708)
469 - Fix handling of standalone `match()` or `case()` when there is a trailing newline or a
470 comment inside of the parentheses. (#2760)
471 - `from __future__ import annotations` statement now implies Python 3.7+ (#2690)
475 - Speed-up the new backtracking parser about 4X in general (enabled when
476 `--target-version` is set to 3.10 and higher). (#2728)
477 - _Black_ is now compiled with [mypyc](https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc) for an overall 2x
478 speed-up. 64-bit Windows, MacOS, and Linux (not including musl) are supported. (#1009,
483 - Do not accept bare carriage return line endings in pyproject.toml (#2408)
484 - Add configuration option (`python-cell-magics`) to format cells with custom magics in
485 Jupyter Notebooks (#2744)
486 - Allow setting custom cache directory on all platforms with environment variable
487 `BLACK_CACHE_DIR` (#2739).
488 - Enable Python 3.10+ by default, without any extra need to specify
489 `--target-version=py310`. (#2758)
490 - Make passing `SRC` or `--code` mandatory and mutually exclusive (#2804)
494 - Improve error message for invalid regular expression (#2678)
495 - Improve error message when parsing fails during AST safety check by embedding the
496 underlying SyntaxError (#2693)
497 - No longer color diff headers white as it's unreadable in light themed terminals
499 - Text coloring added in the final statistics (#2712)
500 - Verbose mode also now describes how a project root was discovered and which paths will
501 be formatted. (#2526)
505 - All upper version bounds on dependencies have been removed (#2718)
506 - `typing-extensions` is no longer a required dependency in Python 3.10+ (#2772)
507 - Set `click` lower bound to `8.0.0` (#2791)
511 - Update GitHub action to support containerized runs (#2748)
515 - Change protocol in pip installation instructions to `https://` (#2761)
516 - Change HTML theme to Furo primarily for its responsive design and mobile support
518 - Deprecate the `black-primer` tool (#2809)
519 - Document Python support policy (#2819)
525 - Fix determination of f-string expression spans (#2654)
526 - Fix bad formatting of error messages about EOF in multi-line statements (#2343)
527 - Functions and classes in blocks now have more consistent surrounding spacing (#2472)
529 #### Jupyter Notebook support
531 - Cell magics are now only processed if they are known Python cell magics. Earlier, all
532 cell magics were tokenized, leading to possible indentation errors e.g. with
533 `%%writefile`. (#2630)
534 - Fix assignment to environment variables in Jupyter Notebooks (#2642)
536 #### Python 3.10 support
538 - Point users to using `--target-version py310` if we detect 3.10-only syntax (#2668)
539 - Fix `match` statements with open sequence subjects, like `match a, b:` or
540 `match a, *b:` (#2639) (#2659)
541 - Fix `match`/`case` statements that contain `match`/`case` soft keywords multiple
542 times, like `match re.match()` (#2661)
543 - Fix `case` statements with an inline body (#2665)
544 - Fix styling of starred expressions inside `match` subject (#2667)
545 - Fix parser error location on invalid syntax in a `match` statement (#2649)
546 - Fix Python 3.10 support on platforms without ProcessPoolExecutor (#2631)
547 - Improve parsing performance on code that uses `match` under `--target-version py310`
552 - Remove dependency on `regex` (#2644) (#2663)
558 - Bumped regex version minimum to 2021.4.4 to fix Pattern class usage (#2621)
564 - Warn about Python 2 deprecation in more cases by improving Python 2 only syntax
566 - Add experimental PyPy support (#2559)
567 - Add partial support for the match statement. As it's experimental, it's only enabled
568 when `--target-version py310` is explicitly specified (#2586)
569 - Add support for parenthesized with (#2586)
570 - Declare support for Python 3.10 for running Black (#2562)
574 - Fixed vim plugin with Python 3.10 by removing deprecated distutils import (#2610)
575 - The vim plugin now parses `skip_magic_trailing_comma` from pyproject.toml (#2613)
581 - Document stability policy, that will apply for non-beta releases (#2529)
582 - Add new `--workers` parameter (#2514)
583 - Fixed feature detection for positional-only arguments in lambdas (#2532)
584 - Bumped typed-ast version minimum to 1.4.3 for 3.10 compatibility (#2519)
585 - Fixed a Python 3.10 compatibility issue where the loop argument was still being passed
586 even though it has been removed (#2580)
587 - Deprecate Python 2 formatting support (#2523)
591 - Remove dependency on aiohttp-cors (#2500)
592 - Bump required aiohttp version to 3.7.4 (#2509)
596 - Add primer support for --projects (#2555)
597 - Print primer summary after individual failures (#2570)
601 - Allow to pass `target_version` in the vim plugin (#1319)
602 - Install build tools in docker file and use multi-stage build to keep the image size
609 - Fix missing modules in self-contained binaries (#2466)
610 - Fix missing toml extra used during installation (#2475)
616 - Add support for formatting Jupyter Notebook files (#2357)
617 - Move from `appdirs` dependency to `platformdirs` (#2375)
618 - Present a more user-friendly error if .gitignore is invalid (#2414)
619 - The failsafe for accidentally added backslashes in f-string expressions has been
620 hardened to handle more edge cases during quote normalization (#2437)
621 - Avoid changing a function return type annotation's type to a tuple by adding a
622 trailing comma (#2384)
623 - Parsing support has been added for unparenthesized walruses in set literals, set
624 comprehensions, and indices (#2447).
625 - Pin `setuptools-scm` build-time dependency version (#2457)
626 - Exclude typing-extensions version 3.10.0.1 due to it being broken on Python 3.10
631 - Replace sys.exit(-1) with raise ImportError as it plays more nicely with tools that
632 scan installed packages (#2440)
636 - The provided pre-commit hooks no longer specify `language_version` to avoid overriding
637 `default_language_version` (#2430)
643 - Configuration files using TOML features higher than spec v0.5.0 are now supported
645 - Add primer support and test for code piped into black via STDIN (#2315)
646 - Fix internal error when `FORCE_OPTIONAL_PARENTHESES` feature is enabled (#2332)
647 - Accept empty stdin (#2346)
648 - Provide a more useful error when parsing fails during AST safety checks (#2304)
652 - Add new `latest_release` tag automation to follow latest black release on docker
657 - The vim plugin now searches upwards from the directory containing the current buffer
658 instead of the current working directory for pyproject.toml. (#1871)
659 - The vim plugin now reads the correct string normalization option in pyproject.toml
661 - The vim plugin no longer crashes Black when there's boolean values in pyproject.toml
668 - Fix failure caused by `fmt: skip` and indentation (#2281)
669 - Account for += assignment when deciding whether to split string (#2312)
670 - Correct max string length calculation when there are string operators (#2292)
671 - Fixed option usage when using the `--code` flag (#2259)
672 - Do not call `uvloop.install()` when _Black_ is used as a library (#2303)
673 - Added `--required-version` option to require a specific version to be running (#2300)
674 - Fix incorrect custom breakpoint indices when string group contains fake f-strings
676 - Fix regression where `R` prefixes would be lowercased for docstrings (#2285)
677 - Fix handling of named escapes (`\N{...}`) when `--experimental-string-processing` is
682 - The official Black action now supports choosing what version to use, and supports the
683 major 3 OSes. (#1940)
689 - A space is no longer inserted into empty docstrings (#2249)
690 - Fix handling of .gitignore files containing non-ASCII characters on Windows (#2229)
691 - Respect `.gitignore` files in all levels, not only `root/.gitignore` file (apply
692 `.gitignore` rules like `git` does) (#2225)
693 - Restored compatibility with Click 8.0 on Python 3.6 when LANG=C used (#2227)
694 - Add extra uvloop install + import support if in python env (#2258)
695 - Fix --experimental-string-processing crash when matching parens are not found (#2283)
696 - Make sure to split lines that start with a string operator (#2286)
697 - Fix regular expression that black uses to identify f-expressions (#2287)
701 - Add a lower bound for the `aiohttp-cors` dependency. Only 0.4.0 or higher is
706 - Release self-contained x86_64 MacOS binaries as part of the GitHub release pipeline
708 - Always build binaries with the latest available Python (#2260)
712 - Add discussion of magic comments to FAQ page (#2272)
713 - `--experimental-string-processing` will be enabled by default in the future (#2273)
714 - Fix typos discovered by codespell (#2228)
715 - Fix Vim plugin installation instructions. (#2235)
716 - Add new Frequently Asked Questions page (#2247)
717 - Fix encoding + symlink issues preventing proper build on Windows (#2262)
723 - Refactor `src/black/__init__.py` into many files (#2206)
727 - Replaced all remaining references to the
728 [`master`](https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main) branch with the
729 [`main`](https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main) branch. Some additional changes in
730 the source code were also made. (#2210)
731 - Sigificantly reorganized the documentation to make much more sense. Check them out by
732 heading over to [the stable docs on RTD](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
739 - Set `--pyi` mode if `--stdin-filename` ends in `.pyi` (#2169)
740 - Stop detecting target version as Python 3.9+ with pre-PEP-614 decorators that are
741 being called but with no arguments (#2182)
745 - Add `--no-diff` to black-primer to suppress formatting changes (#2187)
751 - Fix crash if the user configuration directory is inaccessible. (#2158)
754 [circumstances](https://github.com/psf/black/blob/master/docs/the_black_code_style.md#pragmatism)
755 in which _Black_ may change the AST (#2159)
757 - Allow `.gitignore` rules to be overridden by specifying `exclude` in `pyproject.toml`
758 or on the command line. (#2170)
762 - Install `primer.json` (used by `black-primer` by default) with black. (#2154)
768 - Fix crash on docstrings ending with "\\ ". (#2142)
770 - Fix crash when atypical whitespace is cleaned out of dostrings (#2120)
772 - Reflect the `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` and `--experimental-string-processing` flags
773 in the name of the cache file. Without this fix, changes in these flags would not take
774 effect if the cache had already been populated. (#2131)
776 - Don't remove necessary parentheses from assignment expression containing assert /
777 return statements. (#2143)
781 - Bump pathspec to >= 0.8.1 to solve invalid .gitignore exclusion handling
787 - Fixed a rare but annoying formatting instability created by the combination of
788 optional trailing commas inserted by `Black` and optional parentheses looking at
789 pre-existing "magic" trailing commas. This fixes issue #1629 and all of its many many
792 - `Black` now processes one-line docstrings by stripping leading and trailing spaces,
793 and adding a padding space when needed to break up """". (#1740)
795 - `Black` now cleans up leading non-breaking spaces in comments (#2092)
797 - `Black` now respects `--skip-string-normalization` when normalizing multiline
798 docstring quotes (#1637)
800 - `Black` no longer removes all empty lines between non-function code and decorators
801 when formatting typing stubs. Now `Black` enforces a single empty line. (#1646)
803 - `Black` no longer adds an incorrect space after a parenthesized assignment expression
804 in if/while statements (#1655)
806 - Added `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` / `-C` to avoid using trailing commas as a reason
807 to split lines (#1824)
809 - fixed a crash when PWD=/ on POSIX (#1631)
811 - fixed "I/O operation on closed file" when using --diff (#1664)
813 - Prevent coloured diff output being interleaved with multiple files (#1673)
815 - Added support for PEP 614 relaxed decorator syntax on python 3.9 (#1711)
817 - Added parsing support for unparenthesized tuples and yield expressions in annotated
820 - added `--extend-exclude` argument (PR #2005)
822 - speed up caching by avoiding pathlib (#1950)
824 - `--diff` correctly indicates when a file doesn't end in a newline (#1662)
826 - Added `--stdin-filename` argument to allow stdin to respect `--force-exclude` rules
829 - Lines ending with `fmt: skip` will now be not formatted (#1800)
831 - PR #2053: Black no longer relies on typed-ast for Python 3.8 and higher
833 - PR #2053: Python 2 support is now optional, install with
834 `python3 -m pip install black[python2]` to maintain support.
836 - Exclude `venv` directory by default (#1683)
838 - Fixed "Black produced code that is not equivalent to the source" when formatting
839 Python 2 docstrings (#2037)
843 - Self-contained native _Black_ binaries are now provided for releases via GitHub
850 - explicitly depend on Click 7.1.2 or newer as `Black` no longer works with versions
857 - re-implemented support for explicit trailing commas: now it works consistently within
858 any bracket pair, including nested structures (#1288 and duplicates)
860 - `Black` now reindents docstrings when reindenting code around it (#1053)
862 - `Black` now shows colored diffs (#1266)
864 - `Black` is now packaged using 'py3' tagged wheels (#1388)
866 - `Black` now supports Python 3.8 code, e.g. star expressions in return statements
869 - `Black` no longer normalizes capital R-string prefixes as those have a
870 community-accepted meaning (#1244)
872 - `Black` now uses exit code 2 when specified configuration file doesn't exit (#1361)
874 - `Black` now works on AWS Lambda (#1141)
876 - added `--force-exclude` argument (#1032)
878 - removed deprecated `--py36` option (#1236)
880 - fixed `--diff` output when EOF is encountered (#526)
882 - fixed `# fmt: off` handling around decorators (#560)
884 - fixed unstable formatting with some `# type: ignore` comments (#1113)
886 - fixed invalid removal on organizing brackets followed by indexing (#1575)
888 - introduced `black-primer`, a CI tool that allows us to run regression tests against
889 existing open source users of Black (#1402)
891 - introduced property-based fuzzing to our test suite based on Hypothesis and
892 Hypothersmith (#1566)
894 - implemented experimental and disabled by default long string rewrapping (#1132),
895 hidden under a `--experimental-string-processing` flag while it's being worked on;
896 this is an undocumented and unsupported feature, you lose Internet points for
897 depending on it (#1609)
901 - prefer virtualenv packages over global packages (#1383)
905 - added support for PEP 572 assignment expressions (#711)
907 - added support for PEP 570 positional-only arguments (#943)
909 - added support for async generators (#593)
911 - added support for pre-splitting collections by putting an explicit trailing comma
914 - added `black -c` as a way to format code passed from the command line (#761)
916 - --safe now works with Python 2 code (#840)
918 - fixed grammar selection for Python 2-specific code (#765)
920 - fixed feature detection for trailing commas in function definitions and call sites
923 - `# fmt: off`/`# fmt: on` comment pairs placed multiple times within the same block of
924 code now behave correctly (#1005)
926 - _Black_ no longer crashes on Windows machines with more than 61 cores (#838)
928 - _Black_ no longer crashes on standalone comments prepended with a backslash (#767)
930 - _Black_ no longer crashes on `from` ... `import` blocks with comments (#829)
932 - _Black_ no longer crashes on Python 3.7 on some platform configurations (#494)
934 - _Black_ no longer fails on comments in from-imports (#671)
936 - _Black_ no longer fails when the file starts with a backslash (#922)
938 - _Black_ no longer merges regular comments with type comments (#1027)
940 - _Black_ no longer splits long lines that contain type comments (#997)
942 - removed unnecessary parentheses around `yield` expressions (#834)
944 - added parentheses around long tuples in unpacking assignments (#832)
946 - added parentheses around complex powers when they are prefixed by a unary operator
949 - fixed bug that led _Black_ format some code with a line length target of 1 (#762)
951 - _Black_ no longer introduces quotes in f-string subexpressions on string boundaries
954 - if _Black_ puts parenthesis around a single expression, it moves comments to the
955 wrapped expression instead of after the brackets (#872)
957 - `blackd` now returns the version of _Black_ in the response headers (#1013)
959 - `blackd` can now output the diff of formats on source code when the `X-Diff` header is
964 - new option `--target-version` to control which Python versions _Black_-formatted code
967 - deprecated `--py36` (use `--target-version=py36` instead) (#724)
969 - _Black_ no longer normalizes numeric literals to include `_` separators (#696)
971 - long `del` statements are now split into multiple lines (#698)
973 - type comments are no longer mangled in function signatures
975 - improved performance of formatting deeply nested data structures (#509)
977 - _Black_ now properly formats multiple files in parallel on Windows (#632)
979 - _Black_ now creates cache files atomically which allows it to be used in parallel
980 pipelines (like `xargs -P8`) (#673)
982 - _Black_ now correctly indents comments in files that were previously formatted with
985 - `blackd` now supports CORS (#622)
989 - numeric literals are now formatted by _Black_ (#452, #461, #464, #469):
991 - numeric literals are normalized to include `_` separators on Python 3.6+ code
993 - added `--skip-numeric-underscore-normalization` to disable the above behavior and
994 leave numeric underscores as they were in the input
996 - code with `_` in numeric literals is recognized as Python 3.6+
998 - most letters in numeric literals are lowercased (e.g., in `1e10`, `0x01`)
1000 - hexadecimal digits are always uppercased (e.g. `0xBADC0DE`)
1002 - added `blackd`, see
1003 [its documentation](https://github.com/psf/black/blob/18.9b0/README.md#blackd) for
1006 - adjacent string literals are now correctly split into multiple lines (#463)
1008 - trailing comma is now added to single imports that don't fit on a line (#250)
1010 - cache is now populated when `--check` is successful for a file which speeds up
1011 consecutive checks of properly formatted unmodified files (#448)
1013 - whitespace at the beginning of the file is now removed (#399)
1015 - fixed mangling [pweave](http://mpastell.com/pweave/) and
1016 [Spyder IDE](https://www.spyder-ide.org/) special comments (#532)
1018 - fixed unstable formatting when unpacking big tuples (#267)
1020 - fixed parsing of `__future__` imports with renames (#389)
1022 - fixed scope of `# fmt: off` when directly preceding `yield` and other nodes (#385)
1024 - fixed formatting of lambda expressions with default arguments (#468)
1026 - fixed `async for` statements: _Black_ no longer breaks them into separate lines (#372)
1028 - note: the Vim plugin stopped registering `,=` as a default chord as it turned out to
1029 be a bad idea (#415)
1033 - hotfix: don't freeze when multiple comments directly precede `# fmt: off` (#371)
1037 - typing stub files (`.pyi`) now have blank lines added after constants (#340)
1039 - `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` are now much more dependable:
1041 - they now work also within bracket pairs (#329)
1043 - they now correctly work across function/class boundaries (#335)
1045 - they now work when an indentation block starts with empty lines or misaligned
1048 - made Click not fail on invalid environments; note that Click is right but the
1049 likelihood we'll need to access non-ASCII file paths when dealing with Python source
1052 - fixed improper formatting of f-strings with quotes inside interpolated expressions
1055 - fixed unnecessary slowdown when long list literals where found in a file
1057 - fixed unnecessary slowdown on AST nodes with very many siblings
1059 - fixed cannibalizing backslashes during string normalization
1061 - fixed a crash due to symbolic links pointing outside of the project directory (#338)
1065 - added `--config` (#65)
1067 - added `-h` equivalent to `--help` (#316)
1069 - fixed improper unmodified file caching when `-S` was used
1071 - fixed extra space in string unpacking (#305)
1073 - fixed formatting of empty triple quoted strings (#313)
1075 - fixed unnecessary slowdown in comment placement calculation on lines without comments
1079 - hotfix: don't output human-facing information on stdout (#299)
1081 - hotfix: don't output cake emoji on non-zero return code (#300)
1085 - added `--include` and `--exclude` (#270)
1087 - added `--skip-string-normalization` (#118)
1089 - added `--verbose` (#283)
1091 - the header output in `--diff` now actually conforms to the unified diff spec
1093 - fixed long trivial assignments being wrapped in unnecessary parentheses (#273)
1095 - fixed unnecessary parentheses when a line contained multiline strings (#232)
1097 - fixed stdin handling not working correctly if an old version of Click was used (#276)
1099 - _Black_ now preserves line endings when formatting a file in place (#258)
1103 - added `--pyi` (#249)
1105 - added `--py36` (#249)
1107 - Python grammar pickle caches are stored with the formatting caches, making _Black_
1108 work in environments where site-packages is not user-writable (#192)
1110 - _Black_ now enforces a PEP 257 empty line after a class-level docstring (and/or
1111 fields) and the first method
1113 - fixed invalid code produced when standalone comments were present in a trailer that
1114 was omitted from line splitting on a large expression (#237)
1116 - fixed optional parentheses being removed within `# fmt: off` sections (#224)
1118 - fixed invalid code produced when stars in very long imports were incorrectly wrapped
1119 in optional parentheses (#234)
1121 - fixed unstable formatting when inline comments were moved around in a trailer that was
1122 omitted from line splitting on a large expression (#238)
1124 - fixed extra empty line between a class declaration and the first method if no class
1125 docstring or fields are present (#219)
1127 - fixed extra empty line between a function signature and an inner function or inner
1132 - call chains are now formatted according to the
1133 [fluent interfaces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface) style (#67)
1135 - data structure literals (tuples, lists, dictionaries, and sets) are now also always
1136 exploded like imports when they don't fit in a single line (#152)
1138 - slices are now formatted according to PEP 8 (#178)
1140 - parentheses are now also managed automatically on the right-hand side of assignments
1141 and return statements (#140)
1143 - math operators now use their respective priorities for delimiting multiline
1146 - optional parentheses are now omitted on expressions that start or end with a bracket
1147 and only contain a single operator (#177)
1149 - empty parentheses in a class definition are now removed (#145, #180)
1151 - string prefixes are now standardized to lowercase and `u` is removed on Python 3.6+
1152 only code and Python 2.7+ code with the `unicode_literals` future import (#188, #198,
1155 - typing stub files (`.pyi`) are now formatted in a style that is consistent with PEP
1158 - progress when reformatting many files is now reported incrementally
1160 - fixed trailers (content with brackets) being unnecessarily exploded into their own
1161 lines after a dedented closing bracket (#119)
1163 - fixed an invalid trailing comma sometimes left in imports (#185)
1165 - fixed non-deterministic formatting when multiple pairs of removable parentheses were
1168 - fixed multiline strings being unnecessarily wrapped in optional parentheses in long
1171 - fixed not splitting long from-imports with only a single name
1173 - fixed Python 3.6+ file discovery by also looking at function calls with unpacking.
1174 This fixed non-deterministic formatting if trailing commas where used both in function
1175 signatures with stars and function calls with stars but the former would be
1176 reformatted to a single line.
1178 - fixed crash on dealing with optional parentheses (#193)
1180 - fixed "is", "is not", "in", and "not in" not considered operators for splitting
1183 - fixed crash when dead symlinks where encountered
1187 - don't populate the cache on `--check` (#175)
1191 - added a "cache"; files already reformatted that haven't changed on disk won't be
1192 reformatted again (#109)
1194 - `--check` and `--diff` are no longer mutually exclusive (#149)
1196 - generalized star expression handling, including double stars; this fixes
1197 multiplication making expressions "unsafe" for trailing commas (#132)
1199 - _Black_ no longer enforces putting empty lines behind control flow statements (#90)
1201 - _Black_ now splits imports like "Mode 3 + trailing comma" of isort (#127)
1203 - fixed comment indentation when a standalone comment closes a block (#16, #32)
1205 - fixed standalone comments receiving extra empty lines if immediately preceding a
1206 class, def, or decorator (#56, #154)
1208 - fixed `--diff` not showing entire path (#130)
1210 - fixed parsing of complex expressions after star and double stars in function calls
1213 - fixed invalid splitting on comma in lambda arguments (#133)
1215 - fixed missing splits of ternary expressions (#141)
1219 - fixed parsing of unaligned standalone comments (#99, #112)
1221 - fixed placement of dictionary unpacking inside dictionary literals (#111)
1223 - Vim plugin now works on Windows, too
1225 - fixed unstable formatting when encountering unnecessarily escaped quotes in a string
1230 - added `--quiet` (#78)
1232 - added automatic parentheses management (#4)
1234 - added [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) integration (#103, #104)
1236 - fixed reporting on `--check` with multiple files (#101, #102)
1238 - fixed removing backslash escapes from raw strings (#100, #105)
1242 - added `--diff` (#87)
1244 - add line breaks before all delimiters, except in cases like commas, to better comply
1247 - standardize string literals to use double quotes (almost) everywhere (#75)
1249 - fixed handling of standalone comments within nested bracketed expressions; _Black_
1250 will no longer produce super long lines or put all standalone comments at the end of
1251 the expression (#22)
1253 - fixed 18.3a4 regression: don't crash and burn on empty lines with trailing whitespace
1256 - fixed 18.3a4 regression: `# yapf: disable` usage as trailing comment would cause
1257 _Black_ to not emit the rest of the file (#95)
1259 - when CTRL+C is pressed while formatting many files, _Black_ no longer freaks out with
1260 a flurry of asyncio-related exceptions
1262 - only allow up to two empty lines on module level and only single empty lines within
1267 - `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` are implemented (#5)
1269 - automatic detection of deprecated Python 2 forms of print statements and exec
1270 statements in the formatted file (#49)
1272 - use proper spaces for complex expressions in default values of typed function
1275 - only return exit code 1 when --check is used (#50)
1277 - don't remove single trailing commas from square bracket indexing (#59)
1279 - don't omit whitespace if the previous factor leaf wasn't a math operator (#55)
1281 - omit extra space in kwarg unpacking if it's the first argument (#46)
1283 - omit extra space in
1284 [Sphinx auto-attribute comments](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/autodoc.html#directive-autoattribute)
1289 - don't remove single empty lines outside of bracketed expressions (#19)
1291 - added ability to pipe formatting from stdin to stdin (#25)
1293 - restored ability to format code with legacy usage of `async` as a name (#20, #42)
1295 - even better handling of numpy-style array indexing (#33, again)
1299 - changed positioning of binary operators to occur at beginning of lines instead of at
1301 [a recent change to PEP 8](https://github.com/python/peps/commit/c59c4376ad233a62ca4b3a6060c81368bd21e85b)
1304 - ignore empty bracket pairs while splitting. This avoids very weirdly looking
1305 formattings (#34, #35)
1307 - remove a trailing comma if there is a single argument to a call
1309 - if top level functions were separated by a comment, don't put four empty lines after
1312 - fixed unstable formatting of newlines with imports
1314 - fixed unintentional folding of post scriptum standalone comments into last statement
1315 if it was a simple statement (#18, #28)
1317 - fixed missing space in numpy-style array indexing (#33)
1319 - fixed spurious space after star-based unary expressions (#31)
1325 - only put trailing commas in function signatures and calls if it's safe to do so. If
1326 the file is Python 3.6+ it's always safe, otherwise only safe if there are no `*args`
1327 or `**kwargs` used in the signature or call. (#8)
1329 - fixed invalid spacing of dots in relative imports (#6, #13)
1331 - fixed invalid splitting after comma on unpacked variables in for-loops (#23)
1333 - fixed spurious space in parenthesized set expressions (#7)
1335 - fixed spurious space after opening parentheses and in default arguments (#14, #17)
1337 - fixed spurious space after unary operators when the operand was a complex expression
1342 - first published version, Happy 🍰 Day 2018!
1346 - date-versioned (see: <https://calver.org/>)