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 -->
15 <!-- Changes that affect Black's preview style -->
19 <!-- Changes to blackd -->
23 <!-- Changes to how Black can be configured -->
27 <!-- Major changes to documentation and policies. Small docs changes
28 don't need a changelog entry. -->
32 <!-- For example, Docker, GitHub Actions, pre-commit, editors -->
36 <!-- Changes to Black's terminal output and error messages -->
40 <!-- Changes to how Black is packaged, such as dependency requirements -->
44 <!-- Changes to the parser or to version autodetection -->
48 <!-- Changes that improve Black's performance. -->
54 - Fix unstable formatting involving `#fmt: skip` and `# fmt:skip` comments (notice the
55 lack of spaces) (#2970)
59 - Docstring quotes are no longer moved if it would violate the line length limit (#3044)
60 - Parentheses around return annotations are now managed (#2990)
61 - Remove unnecessary parentheses around awaited objects (#2991)
62 - Remove unnecessary parentheses in `with` statements (#2926)
63 - Remove trailing newlines after code block open (#3035)
67 - Add `scripts/migrate-black.py` script to ease introduction of Black to a Git project
72 - Output Python version and implementation as part of `--version` flag (#2997)
76 - Use `tomli` instead of `tomllib` on Python 3.11 builds where `tomllib` is not
81 - [PEP 654](https://peps.python.org/pep-0654/#except) syntax (for example,
82 `except *ExceptionGroup:`) is now supported (#3016)
83 - [PEP 646](https://peps.python.org/pep-0646) syntax (for example,
84 `Array[Batch, *Shape]` or `def fn(*args: *T) -> None`) is now supported (#3071)
88 - Fix `strtobool` function. It didn't parse true/on/false/off. (#3025)
94 - Code cell separators `#%%` are now standardised to `# %%` (#2919)
95 - Remove unnecessary parentheses from `except` statements (#2939)
96 - Remove unnecessary parentheses from tuple unpacking in `for` loops (#2945)
97 - Avoid magic-trailing-comma in single-element subscripts (#2942)
101 - Do not format `__pypackages__` directories by default (#2836)
102 - Add support for specifying stable version with `--required-version` (#2832).
103 - Avoid crashing when the user has no homedir (#2814)
104 - Avoid crashing when md5 is not available (#2905)
105 - Fix handling of directory junctions on Windows (#2904)
109 - Update pylint config documentation (#2931)
113 - Move test to disable plugin in Vim/Neovim, which speeds up loading (#2896)
117 - In verbose mode, log when _Black_ is using user-level config (#2861)
121 - Fix Black to work with Click 8.1.0 (#2966)
122 - On Python 3.11 and newer, use the standard library's `tomllib` instead of `tomli`
124 - `black-primer`, the deprecated internal devtool, has been removed and copied to a
125 [separate repository](https://github.com/cooperlees/black-primer) (#2924)
129 - Black can now parse starred expressions in the target of `for` and `async for`
130 statements, e.g `for item in *items_1, *items_2: pass` (#2879).
134 At long last, _Black_ is no longer a beta product! This is the first non-beta release
135 and the first release covered by our new
136 [stability policy](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/index.html#stability-policy).
140 - **Remove Python 2 support** (#2740)
141 - Introduce the `--preview` flag (#2752)
145 - Deprecate `--experimental-string-processing` and move the functionality under
147 - For stubs, one blank line between class attributes and methods is now kept if there's
148 at least one pre-existing blank line (#2736)
149 - Black now normalizes string prefix order (#2297)
150 - Remove spaces around power operators if both operands are simple (#2726)
151 - Work around bug that causes unstable formatting in some cases in the presence of the
152 magic trailing comma (#2807)
153 - Use parentheses for attribute access on decimal float and int literals (#2799)
154 - Don't add whitespace for attribute access on hexadecimal, binary, octal, and complex
156 - Treat blank lines in stubs the same inside top-level `if` statements (#2820)
157 - Fix unstable formatting with semicolons and arithmetic expressions (#2817)
158 - Fix unstable formatting around magic trailing comma (#2572)
162 - Fix mapping cases that contain as-expressions, like `case {"key": 1 | 2 as password}`
164 - Fix cases that contain multiple top-level as-expressions, like `case 1 as a, 2 as b`
166 - Fix call patterns that contain as-expressions with keyword arguments, like
167 `case Foo(bar=baz as quux)` (#2749)
168 - Tuple unpacking on `return` and `yield` constructs now implies 3.8+ (#2700)
169 - Unparenthesized tuples on annotated assignments (e.g
170 `values: Tuple[int, ...] = 1, 2, 3`) now implies 3.8+ (#2708)
171 - Fix handling of standalone `match()` or `case()` when there is a trailing newline or a
172 comment inside of the parentheses. (#2760)
173 - `from __future__ import annotations` statement now implies Python 3.7+ (#2690)
177 - Speed-up the new backtracking parser about 4X in general (enabled when
178 `--target-version` is set to 3.10 and higher). (#2728)
179 - _Black_ is now compiled with [mypyc](https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc) for an overall 2x
180 speed-up. 64-bit Windows, MacOS, and Linux (not including musl) are supported. (#1009,
185 - Do not accept bare carriage return line endings in pyproject.toml (#2408)
186 - Add configuration option (`python-cell-magics`) to format cells with custom magics in
187 Jupyter Notebooks (#2744)
188 - Allow setting custom cache directory on all platforms with environment variable
189 `BLACK_CACHE_DIR` (#2739).
190 - Enable Python 3.10+ by default, without any extra need to specify
191 `--target-version=py310`. (#2758)
192 - Make passing `SRC` or `--code` mandatory and mutually exclusive (#2804)
196 - Improve error message for invalid regular expression (#2678)
197 - Improve error message when parsing fails during AST safety check by embedding the
198 underlying SyntaxError (#2693)
199 - No longer color diff headers white as it's unreadable in light themed terminals
201 - Text coloring added in the final statistics (#2712)
202 - Verbose mode also now describes how a project root was discovered and which paths will
203 be formatted. (#2526)
207 - All upper version bounds on dependencies have been removed (#2718)
208 - `typing-extensions` is no longer a required dependency in Python 3.10+ (#2772)
209 - Set `click` lower bound to `8.0.0` (#2791)
213 - Update GitHub action to support containerized runs (#2748)
217 - Change protocol in pip installation instructions to `https://` (#2761)
218 - Change HTML theme to Furo primarily for its responsive design and mobile support
220 - Deprecate the `black-primer` tool (#2809)
221 - Document Python support policy (#2819)
227 - Fix determination of f-string expression spans (#2654)
228 - Fix bad formatting of error messages about EOF in multi-line statements (#2343)
229 - Functions and classes in blocks now have more consistent surrounding spacing (#2472)
231 #### Jupyter Notebook support
233 - Cell magics are now only processed if they are known Python cell magics. Earlier, all
234 cell magics were tokenized, leading to possible indentation errors e.g. with
235 `%%writefile`. (#2630)
236 - Fix assignment to environment variables in Jupyter Notebooks (#2642)
238 #### Python 3.10 support
240 - Point users to using `--target-version py310` if we detect 3.10-only syntax (#2668)
241 - Fix `match` statements with open sequence subjects, like `match a, b:` or
242 `match a, *b:` (#2639) (#2659)
243 - Fix `match`/`case` statements that contain `match`/`case` soft keywords multiple
244 times, like `match re.match()` (#2661)
245 - Fix `case` statements with an inline body (#2665)
246 - Fix styling of starred expressions inside `match` subject (#2667)
247 - Fix parser error location on invalid syntax in a `match` statement (#2649)
248 - Fix Python 3.10 support on platforms without ProcessPoolExecutor (#2631)
249 - Improve parsing performance on code that uses `match` under `--target-version py310`
254 - Remove dependency on `regex` (#2644) (#2663)
260 - Bumped regex version minimum to 2021.4.4 to fix Pattern class usage (#2621)
266 - Warn about Python 2 deprecation in more cases by improving Python 2 only syntax
268 - Add experimental PyPy support (#2559)
269 - Add partial support for the match statement. As it's experimental, it's only enabled
270 when `--target-version py310` is explicitly specified (#2586)
271 - Add support for parenthesized with (#2586)
272 - Declare support for Python 3.10 for running Black (#2562)
276 - Fixed vim plugin with Python 3.10 by removing deprecated distutils import (#2610)
277 - The vim plugin now parses `skip_magic_trailing_comma` from pyproject.toml (#2613)
283 - Document stability policy, that will apply for non-beta releases (#2529)
284 - Add new `--workers` parameter (#2514)
285 - Fixed feature detection for positional-only arguments in lambdas (#2532)
286 - Bumped typed-ast version minimum to 1.4.3 for 3.10 compatibility (#2519)
287 - Fixed a Python 3.10 compatibility issue where the loop argument was still being passed
288 even though it has been removed (#2580)
289 - Deprecate Python 2 formatting support (#2523)
293 - Remove dependency on aiohttp-cors (#2500)
294 - Bump required aiohttp version to 3.7.4 (#2509)
298 - Add primer support for --projects (#2555)
299 - Print primer summary after individual failures (#2570)
303 - Allow to pass `target_version` in the vim plugin (#1319)
304 - Install build tools in docker file and use multi-stage build to keep the image size
311 - Fix missing modules in self-contained binaries (#2466)
312 - Fix missing toml extra used during installation (#2475)
318 - Add support for formatting Jupyter Notebook files (#2357)
319 - Move from `appdirs` dependency to `platformdirs` (#2375)
320 - Present a more user-friendly error if .gitignore is invalid (#2414)
321 - The failsafe for accidentally added backslashes in f-string expressions has been
322 hardened to handle more edge cases during quote normalization (#2437)
323 - Avoid changing a function return type annotation's type to a tuple by adding a
324 trailing comma (#2384)
325 - Parsing support has been added for unparenthesized walruses in set literals, set
326 comprehensions, and indices (#2447).
327 - Pin `setuptools-scm` build-time dependency version (#2457)
328 - Exclude typing-extensions version 3.10.0.1 due to it being broken on Python 3.10
333 - Replace sys.exit(-1) with raise ImportError as it plays more nicely with tools that
334 scan installed packages (#2440)
338 - The provided pre-commit hooks no longer specify `language_version` to avoid overriding
339 `default_language_version` (#2430)
345 - Configuration files using TOML features higher than spec v0.5.0 are now supported
347 - Add primer support and test for code piped into black via STDIN (#2315)
348 - Fix internal error when `FORCE_OPTIONAL_PARENTHESES` feature is enabled (#2332)
349 - Accept empty stdin (#2346)
350 - Provide a more useful error when parsing fails during AST safety checks (#2304)
354 - Add new `latest_release` tag automation to follow latest black release on docker
359 - The vim plugin now searches upwards from the directory containing the current buffer
360 instead of the current working directory for pyproject.toml. (#1871)
361 - The vim plugin now reads the correct string normalization option in pyproject.toml
363 - The vim plugin no longer crashes Black when there's boolean values in pyproject.toml
370 - Fix failure caused by `fmt: skip` and indentation (#2281)
371 - Account for += assignment when deciding whether to split string (#2312)
372 - Correct max string length calculation when there are string operators (#2292)
373 - Fixed option usage when using the `--code` flag (#2259)
374 - Do not call `uvloop.install()` when _Black_ is used as a library (#2303)
375 - Added `--required-version` option to require a specific version to be running (#2300)
376 - Fix incorrect custom breakpoint indices when string group contains fake f-strings
378 - Fix regression where `R` prefixes would be lowercased for docstrings (#2285)
379 - Fix handling of named escapes (`\N{...}`) when `--experimental-string-processing` is
384 - The official Black action now supports choosing what version to use, and supports the
385 major 3 OSes. (#1940)
391 - A space is no longer inserted into empty docstrings (#2249)
392 - Fix handling of .gitignore files containing non-ASCII characters on Windows (#2229)
393 - Respect `.gitignore` files in all levels, not only `root/.gitignore` file (apply
394 `.gitignore` rules like `git` does) (#2225)
395 - Restored compatibility with Click 8.0 on Python 3.6 when LANG=C used (#2227)
396 - Add extra uvloop install + import support if in python env (#2258)
397 - Fix --experimental-string-processing crash when matching parens are not found (#2283)
398 - Make sure to split lines that start with a string operator (#2286)
399 - Fix regular expression that black uses to identify f-expressions (#2287)
403 - Add a lower bound for the `aiohttp-cors` dependency. Only 0.4.0 or higher is
408 - Release self-contained x86_64 MacOS binaries as part of the GitHub release pipeline
410 - Always build binaries with the latest available Python (#2260)
414 - Add discussion of magic comments to FAQ page (#2272)
415 - `--experimental-string-processing` will be enabled by default in the future (#2273)
416 - Fix typos discovered by codespell (#2228)
417 - Fix Vim plugin installation instructions. (#2235)
418 - Add new Frequently Asked Questions page (#2247)
419 - Fix encoding + symlink issues preventing proper build on Windows (#2262)
425 - Refactor `src/black/__init__.py` into many files (#2206)
429 - Replaced all remaining references to the
430 [`master`](https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main) branch with the
431 [`main`](https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main) branch. Some additional changes in
432 the source code were also made. (#2210)
433 - Sigificantly reorganized the documentation to make much more sense. Check them out by
434 heading over to [the stable docs on RTD](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
441 - Set `--pyi` mode if `--stdin-filename` ends in `.pyi` (#2169)
442 - Stop detecting target version as Python 3.9+ with pre-PEP-614 decorators that are
443 being called but with no arguments (#2182)
447 - Add `--no-diff` to black-primer to suppress formatting changes (#2187)
453 - Fix crash if the user configuration directory is inaccessible. (#2158)
456 [circumstances](https://github.com/psf/black/blob/master/docs/the_black_code_style.md#pragmatism)
457 in which _Black_ may change the AST (#2159)
459 - Allow `.gitignore` rules to be overridden by specifying `exclude` in `pyproject.toml`
460 or on the command line. (#2170)
464 - Install `primer.json` (used by `black-primer` by default) with black. (#2154)
470 - Fix crash on docstrings ending with "\\ ". (#2142)
472 - Fix crash when atypical whitespace is cleaned out of dostrings (#2120)
474 - Reflect the `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` and `--experimental-string-processing` flags
475 in the name of the cache file. Without this fix, changes in these flags would not take
476 effect if the cache had already been populated. (#2131)
478 - Don't remove necessary parentheses from assignment expression containing assert /
479 return statements. (#2143)
483 - Bump pathspec to >= 0.8.1 to solve invalid .gitignore exclusion handling
489 - Fixed a rare but annoying formatting instability created by the combination of
490 optional trailing commas inserted by `Black` and optional parentheses looking at
491 pre-existing "magic" trailing commas. This fixes issue #1629 and all of its many many
494 - `Black` now processes one-line docstrings by stripping leading and trailing spaces,
495 and adding a padding space when needed to break up """". (#1740)
497 - `Black` now cleans up leading non-breaking spaces in comments (#2092)
499 - `Black` now respects `--skip-string-normalization` when normalizing multiline
500 docstring quotes (#1637)
502 - `Black` no longer removes all empty lines between non-function code and decorators
503 when formatting typing stubs. Now `Black` enforces a single empty line. (#1646)
505 - `Black` no longer adds an incorrect space after a parenthesized assignment expression
506 in if/while statements (#1655)
508 - Added `--skip-magic-trailing-comma` / `-C` to avoid using trailing commas as a reason
509 to split lines (#1824)
511 - fixed a crash when PWD=/ on POSIX (#1631)
513 - fixed "I/O operation on closed file" when using --diff (#1664)
515 - Prevent coloured diff output being interleaved with multiple files (#1673)
517 - Added support for PEP 614 relaxed decorator syntax on python 3.9 (#1711)
519 - Added parsing support for unparenthesized tuples and yield expressions in annotated
522 - added `--extend-exclude` argument (PR #2005)
524 - speed up caching by avoiding pathlib (#1950)
526 - `--diff` correctly indicates when a file doesn't end in a newline (#1662)
528 - Added `--stdin-filename` argument to allow stdin to respect `--force-exclude` rules
531 - Lines ending with `fmt: skip` will now be not formatted (#1800)
533 - PR #2053: Black no longer relies on typed-ast for Python 3.8 and higher
535 - PR #2053: Python 2 support is now optional, install with
536 `python3 -m pip install black[python2]` to maintain support.
538 - Exclude `venv` directory by default (#1683)
540 - Fixed "Black produced code that is not equivalent to the source" when formatting
541 Python 2 docstrings (#2037)
545 - Self-contained native _Black_ binaries are now provided for releases via GitHub
552 - explicitly depend on Click 7.1.2 or newer as `Black` no longer works with versions
559 - re-implemented support for explicit trailing commas: now it works consistently within
560 any bracket pair, including nested structures (#1288 and duplicates)
562 - `Black` now reindents docstrings when reindenting code around it (#1053)
564 - `Black` now shows colored diffs (#1266)
566 - `Black` is now packaged using 'py3' tagged wheels (#1388)
568 - `Black` now supports Python 3.8 code, e.g. star expressions in return statements
571 - `Black` no longer normalizes capital R-string prefixes as those have a
572 community-accepted meaning (#1244)
574 - `Black` now uses exit code 2 when specified configuration file doesn't exit (#1361)
576 - `Black` now works on AWS Lambda (#1141)
578 - added `--force-exclude` argument (#1032)
580 - removed deprecated `--py36` option (#1236)
582 - fixed `--diff` output when EOF is encountered (#526)
584 - fixed `# fmt: off` handling around decorators (#560)
586 - fixed unstable formatting with some `# type: ignore` comments (#1113)
588 - fixed invalid removal on organizing brackets followed by indexing (#1575)
590 - introduced `black-primer`, a CI tool that allows us to run regression tests against
591 existing open source users of Black (#1402)
593 - introduced property-based fuzzing to our test suite based on Hypothesis and
594 Hypothersmith (#1566)
596 - implemented experimental and disabled by default long string rewrapping (#1132),
597 hidden under a `--experimental-string-processing` flag while it's being worked on;
598 this is an undocumented and unsupported feature, you lose Internet points for
599 depending on it (#1609)
603 - prefer virtualenv packages over global packages (#1383)
607 - added support for PEP 572 assignment expressions (#711)
609 - added support for PEP 570 positional-only arguments (#943)
611 - added support for async generators (#593)
613 - added support for pre-splitting collections by putting an explicit trailing comma
616 - added `black -c` as a way to format code passed from the command line (#761)
618 - --safe now works with Python 2 code (#840)
620 - fixed grammar selection for Python 2-specific code (#765)
622 - fixed feature detection for trailing commas in function definitions and call sites
625 - `# fmt: off`/`# fmt: on` comment pairs placed multiple times within the same block of
626 code now behave correctly (#1005)
628 - _Black_ no longer crashes on Windows machines with more than 61 cores (#838)
630 - _Black_ no longer crashes on standalone comments prepended with a backslash (#767)
632 - _Black_ no longer crashes on `from` ... `import` blocks with comments (#829)
634 - _Black_ no longer crashes on Python 3.7 on some platform configurations (#494)
636 - _Black_ no longer fails on comments in from-imports (#671)
638 - _Black_ no longer fails when the file starts with a backslash (#922)
640 - _Black_ no longer merges regular comments with type comments (#1027)
642 - _Black_ no longer splits long lines that contain type comments (#997)
644 - removed unnecessary parentheses around `yield` expressions (#834)
646 - added parentheses around long tuples in unpacking assignments (#832)
648 - added parentheses around complex powers when they are prefixed by a unary operator
651 - fixed bug that led _Black_ format some code with a line length target of 1 (#762)
653 - _Black_ no longer introduces quotes in f-string subexpressions on string boundaries
656 - if _Black_ puts parenthesis around a single expression, it moves comments to the
657 wrapped expression instead of after the brackets (#872)
659 - `blackd` now returns the version of _Black_ in the response headers (#1013)
661 - `blackd` can now output the diff of formats on source code when the `X-Diff` header is
666 - new option `--target-version` to control which Python versions _Black_-formatted code
669 - deprecated `--py36` (use `--target-version=py36` instead) (#724)
671 - _Black_ no longer normalizes numeric literals to include `_` separators (#696)
673 - long `del` statements are now split into multiple lines (#698)
675 - type comments are no longer mangled in function signatures
677 - improved performance of formatting deeply nested data structures (#509)
679 - _Black_ now properly formats multiple files in parallel on Windows (#632)
681 - _Black_ now creates cache files atomically which allows it to be used in parallel
682 pipelines (like `xargs -P8`) (#673)
684 - _Black_ now correctly indents comments in files that were previously formatted with
687 - `blackd` now supports CORS (#622)
691 - numeric literals are now formatted by _Black_ (#452, #461, #464, #469):
693 - numeric literals are normalized to include `_` separators on Python 3.6+ code
695 - added `--skip-numeric-underscore-normalization` to disable the above behavior and
696 leave numeric underscores as they were in the input
698 - code with `_` in numeric literals is recognized as Python 3.6+
700 - most letters in numeric literals are lowercased (e.g., in `1e10`, `0x01`)
702 - hexadecimal digits are always uppercased (e.g. `0xBADC0DE`)
704 - added `blackd`, see
705 [its documentation](https://github.com/psf/black/blob/18.9b0/README.md#blackd) for
708 - adjacent string literals are now correctly split into multiple lines (#463)
710 - trailing comma is now added to single imports that don't fit on a line (#250)
712 - cache is now populated when `--check` is successful for a file which speeds up
713 consecutive checks of properly formatted unmodified files (#448)
715 - whitespace at the beginning of the file is now removed (#399)
717 - fixed mangling [pweave](http://mpastell.com/pweave/) and
718 [Spyder IDE](https://www.spyder-ide.org/) special comments (#532)
720 - fixed unstable formatting when unpacking big tuples (#267)
722 - fixed parsing of `__future__` imports with renames (#389)
724 - fixed scope of `# fmt: off` when directly preceding `yield` and other nodes (#385)
726 - fixed formatting of lambda expressions with default arguments (#468)
728 - fixed `async for` statements: _Black_ no longer breaks them into separate lines (#372)
730 - note: the Vim plugin stopped registering `,=` as a default chord as it turned out to
735 - hotfix: don't freeze when multiple comments directly precede `# fmt: off` (#371)
739 - typing stub files (`.pyi`) now have blank lines added after constants (#340)
741 - `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` are now much more dependable:
743 - they now work also within bracket pairs (#329)
745 - they now correctly work across function/class boundaries (#335)
747 - they now work when an indentation block starts with empty lines or misaligned
750 - made Click not fail on invalid environments; note that Click is right but the
751 likelihood we'll need to access non-ASCII file paths when dealing with Python source
754 - fixed improper formatting of f-strings with quotes inside interpolated expressions
757 - fixed unnecessary slowdown when long list literals where found in a file
759 - fixed unnecessary slowdown on AST nodes with very many siblings
761 - fixed cannibalizing backslashes during string normalization
763 - fixed a crash due to symbolic links pointing outside of the project directory (#338)
767 - added `--config` (#65)
769 - added `-h` equivalent to `--help` (#316)
771 - fixed improper unmodified file caching when `-S` was used
773 - fixed extra space in string unpacking (#305)
775 - fixed formatting of empty triple quoted strings (#313)
777 - fixed unnecessary slowdown in comment placement calculation on lines without comments
781 - hotfix: don't output human-facing information on stdout (#299)
783 - hotfix: don't output cake emoji on non-zero return code (#300)
787 - added `--include` and `--exclude` (#270)
789 - added `--skip-string-normalization` (#118)
791 - added `--verbose` (#283)
793 - the header output in `--diff` now actually conforms to the unified diff spec
795 - fixed long trivial assignments being wrapped in unnecessary parentheses (#273)
797 - fixed unnecessary parentheses when a line contained multiline strings (#232)
799 - fixed stdin handling not working correctly if an old version of Click was used (#276)
801 - _Black_ now preserves line endings when formatting a file in place (#258)
805 - added `--pyi` (#249)
807 - added `--py36` (#249)
809 - Python grammar pickle caches are stored with the formatting caches, making _Black_
810 work in environments where site-packages is not user-writable (#192)
812 - _Black_ now enforces a PEP 257 empty line after a class-level docstring (and/or
813 fields) and the first method
815 - fixed invalid code produced when standalone comments were present in a trailer that
816 was omitted from line splitting on a large expression (#237)
818 - fixed optional parentheses being removed within `# fmt: off` sections (#224)
820 - fixed invalid code produced when stars in very long imports were incorrectly wrapped
821 in optional parentheses (#234)
823 - fixed unstable formatting when inline comments were moved around in a trailer that was
824 omitted from line splitting on a large expression (#238)
826 - fixed extra empty line between a class declaration and the first method if no class
827 docstring or fields are present (#219)
829 - fixed extra empty line between a function signature and an inner function or inner
834 - call chains are now formatted according to the
835 [fluent interfaces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface) style (#67)
837 - data structure literals (tuples, lists, dictionaries, and sets) are now also always
838 exploded like imports when they don't fit in a single line (#152)
840 - slices are now formatted according to PEP 8 (#178)
842 - parentheses are now also managed automatically on the right-hand side of assignments
843 and return statements (#140)
845 - math operators now use their respective priorities for delimiting multiline
848 - optional parentheses are now omitted on expressions that start or end with a bracket
849 and only contain a single operator (#177)
851 - empty parentheses in a class definition are now removed (#145, #180)
853 - string prefixes are now standardized to lowercase and `u` is removed on Python 3.6+
854 only code and Python 2.7+ code with the `unicode_literals` future import (#188, #198,
857 - typing stub files (`.pyi`) are now formatted in a style that is consistent with PEP
860 - progress when reformatting many files is now reported incrementally
862 - fixed trailers (content with brackets) being unnecessarily exploded into their own
863 lines after a dedented closing bracket (#119)
865 - fixed an invalid trailing comma sometimes left in imports (#185)
867 - fixed non-deterministic formatting when multiple pairs of removable parentheses were
870 - fixed multiline strings being unnecessarily wrapped in optional parentheses in long
873 - fixed not splitting long from-imports with only a single name
875 - fixed Python 3.6+ file discovery by also looking at function calls with unpacking.
876 This fixed non-deterministic formatting if trailing commas where used both in function
877 signatures with stars and function calls with stars but the former would be
878 reformatted to a single line.
880 - fixed crash on dealing with optional parentheses (#193)
882 - fixed "is", "is not", "in", and "not in" not considered operators for splitting
885 - fixed crash when dead symlinks where encountered
889 - don't populate the cache on `--check` (#175)
893 - added a "cache"; files already reformatted that haven't changed on disk won't be
894 reformatted again (#109)
896 - `--check` and `--diff` are no longer mutually exclusive (#149)
898 - generalized star expression handling, including double stars; this fixes
899 multiplication making expressions "unsafe" for trailing commas (#132)
901 - _Black_ no longer enforces putting empty lines behind control flow statements (#90)
903 - _Black_ now splits imports like "Mode 3 + trailing comma" of isort (#127)
905 - fixed comment indentation when a standalone comment closes a block (#16, #32)
907 - fixed standalone comments receiving extra empty lines if immediately preceding a
908 class, def, or decorator (#56, #154)
910 - fixed `--diff` not showing entire path (#130)
912 - fixed parsing of complex expressions after star and double stars in function calls
915 - fixed invalid splitting on comma in lambda arguments (#133)
917 - fixed missing splits of ternary expressions (#141)
921 - fixed parsing of unaligned standalone comments (#99, #112)
923 - fixed placement of dictionary unpacking inside dictionary literals (#111)
925 - Vim plugin now works on Windows, too
927 - fixed unstable formatting when encountering unnecessarily escaped quotes in a string
932 - added `--quiet` (#78)
934 - added automatic parentheses management (#4)
936 - added [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) integration (#103, #104)
938 - fixed reporting on `--check` with multiple files (#101, #102)
940 - fixed removing backslash escapes from raw strings (#100, #105)
944 - added `--diff` (#87)
946 - add line breaks before all delimiters, except in cases like commas, to better comply
949 - standardize string literals to use double quotes (almost) everywhere (#75)
951 - fixed handling of standalone comments within nested bracketed expressions; _Black_
952 will no longer produce super long lines or put all standalone comments at the end of
955 - fixed 18.3a4 regression: don't crash and burn on empty lines with trailing whitespace
958 - fixed 18.3a4 regression: `# yapf: disable` usage as trailing comment would cause
959 _Black_ to not emit the rest of the file (#95)
961 - when CTRL+C is pressed while formatting many files, _Black_ no longer freaks out with
962 a flurry of asyncio-related exceptions
964 - only allow up to two empty lines on module level and only single empty lines within
969 - `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` are implemented (#5)
971 - automatic detection of deprecated Python 2 forms of print statements and exec
972 statements in the formatted file (#49)
974 - use proper spaces for complex expressions in default values of typed function
977 - only return exit code 1 when --check is used (#50)
979 - don't remove single trailing commas from square bracket indexing (#59)
981 - don't omit whitespace if the previous factor leaf wasn't a math operator (#55)
983 - omit extra space in kwarg unpacking if it's the first argument (#46)
985 - omit extra space in
986 [Sphinx auto-attribute comments](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/autodoc.html#directive-autoattribute)
991 - don't remove single empty lines outside of bracketed expressions (#19)
993 - added ability to pipe formatting from stdin to stdin (#25)
995 - restored ability to format code with legacy usage of `async` as a name (#20, #42)
997 - even better handling of numpy-style array indexing (#33, again)
1001 - changed positioning of binary operators to occur at beginning of lines instead of at
1003 [a recent change to PEP 8](https://github.com/python/peps/commit/c59c4376ad233a62ca4b3a6060c81368bd21e85b)
1006 - ignore empty bracket pairs while splitting. This avoids very weirdly looking
1007 formattings (#34, #35)
1009 - remove a trailing comma if there is a single argument to a call
1011 - if top level functions were separated by a comment, don't put four empty lines after
1014 - fixed unstable formatting of newlines with imports
1016 - fixed unintentional folding of post scriptum standalone comments into last statement
1017 if it was a simple statement (#18, #28)
1019 - fixed missing space in numpy-style array indexing (#33)
1021 - fixed spurious space after star-based unary expressions (#31)
1027 - only put trailing commas in function signatures and calls if it's safe to do so. If
1028 the file is Python 3.6+ it's always safe, otherwise only safe if there are no `*args`
1029 or `**kwargs` used in the signature or call. (#8)
1031 - fixed invalid spacing of dots in relative imports (#6, #13)
1033 - fixed invalid splitting after comma on unpacked variables in for-loops (#23)
1035 - fixed spurious space in parenthesized set expressions (#7)
1037 - fixed spurious space after opening parentheses and in default arguments (#14, #17)
1039 - fixed spurious space after unary operators when the operand was a complex expression
1044 - first published version, Happy 🍰 Day 2018!
1048 - date-versioned (see: <https://calver.org/>)