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.
1 .. black documentation master file, created by
2 sphinx-quickstart on Fri Mar 23 10:53:30 2018.
4 The uncompromising code formatter
5 =================================
9 By using *Black*, you agree to cede control over minutiae of
10 hand-formatting. In return, *Black* gives you speed, determinism, and
11 freedom from `pycodestyle` nagging about formatting. You will save time
12 and mental energy for more important matters.
14 *Black* makes code review faster by producing the smallest diffs
15 possible. Blackened code looks the same regardless of the project
16 you're reading. Formatting becomes transparent after a while and you
17 can focus on the content instead.
19 Try it out now using the `Black Playground <https://black.vercel.app>`_.
21 .. admonition:: Note - Black is now stable!
23 *Black* is `successfully used <https://github.com/psf/black#used-by>`_ by
24 many projects, small and big. *Black* has a comprehensive test suite, with efficient
25 parallel tests, our own auto formatting and parallel Continuous Integration runner.
26 Now that we have become stable, you should not expect large formatting to changes in
27 the future. Stylistic changes will mostly be responses to bug reports and support for new Python
30 Also, as a safety measure which slows down processing, *Black* will check that the
31 reformatted code still produces a valid AST that is effectively equivalent to the
33 `Pragmatism <./the_black_code_style/current_style.html#pragmatism>`_
34 section for details). If you're feeling confident, use ``--fast``.
37 :doc:`Black is licensed under the MIT license <license>`.
42 **Mike Bayer**, author of `SQLAlchemy <https://www.sqlalchemy.org/>`_:
44 *I can't think of any single tool in my entire programming career that has given me a
45 bigger productivity increase by its introduction. I can now do refactorings in about
46 1% of the keystrokes that it would have taken me previously when we had no way for
47 code to format itself.*
49 **Dusty Phillips**, `writer <https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dusty+phillips>`_:
51 *Black is opinionated so you don't have to be.*
53 **Hynek Schlawack**, creator of `attrs <https://www.attrs.org/>`_, core
54 developer of Twisted and CPython:
56 *An auto-formatter that doesn't suck is all I want for Xmas!*
58 **Carl Meyer**, `Django <https://www.djangoproject.com/>`_ core developer:
60 *At least the name is good.*
62 **Kenneth Reitz**, creator of `requests <http://python-requests.org/>`_
63 and `pipenv <https://docs.pipenv.org/>`_:
65 *This vastly improves the formatting of our code. Thanks a ton!*
71 Use the badge in your project's README.md:
75 [![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
78 Using the badge in README.rst:
82 .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg
83 :target: https://github.com/psf/black
87 .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg
88 :target: https://github.com/psf/black
97 the_black_code_style/index
105 usage_and_configuration/index
113 :caption: Development
121 :caption: Project Links
123 GitHub <https://github.com/psf/black>
124 PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/black>
125 Chat <https://discord.gg/RtVdv86PrH>