used).
-### NOTE: This is an early pre-release
+### NOTE: This is a beta product
-*Black* can already successfully format itself and the standard library.
+*Black* is already successfully used by several projects, small and big.
It also sports a decent test suite. However, it is still very new.
Things will probably be wonky for a while. This is made explicit by the
-"Alpha" trove classifier, as well as by the "a" in the version number.
+"Beta" trove classifier, as well as by the "b" in the version number.
What this means for you is that **until the formatter becomes stable,
-you should expect some formatting to change in the future**.
+you should expect some formatting to change in the future**. That being
+said, no drastic stylistic changes are planned, mostly responses to bug
+reports.
Also, as a temporary safety measure, *Black* will check that the
reformatted code still produces a valid AST that is equivalent to the
```py3
# in:
-l = [[n for n in list_bosses()], [n for n in list_employees()]]
+TracebackException.from_exception(exc, limit, lookup_lines, capture_locals)
# out:
-l = [
- [n for n in list_bosses()], [n for n in list_employees()]
-]
+TracebackException.from_exception(
+ exc, limit, lookup_lines, capture_locals
+)
```
If that still doesn't fit the bill, it will decompose the internal
indentation level (like the arguments list and the docstring in the
example above).
-If a line of "from" imports cannot fit in the allotted length, it's always split
-into one per line. Imports tend to change often and this minimizes diffs, as well
-as enables readers of code to easily find which commit introduced a particular
-import. This exception also makes *Black* compatible with
-[isort](https://pypi.org/p/isort/). Use `multi_line_output=3`,
-`include_trailing_comma=True`, `force_grid_wrap=0`, and `line_length=88` in your
-isort config.
+If a data structure literal (tuple, list, set, dict) or a line of "from"
+imports cannot fit in the allotted length, it's always split into one
+element per line. This minimizes diffs as well as enables readers of
+code to find which commit introduced a particular entry. This also
+makes *Black* compatible with [isort](https://pypi.org/p/isort/). Use
+`multi_line_output=3`, `include_trailing_comma=True`,
+`force_grid_wrap=0`, and `line_length=88` in your isort config.
### Line length
recognize it was safe to do so, put it there manually and *Black* will
keep it.
+
### Strings
*Black* prefers double quotes (`"` and `"""`) over single quotes (`'`
key. My recommendation here is to keep using whatever is faster to type
and let *Black* handle the transformation.
+
### Line Breaks & Binary Operators
*Black* will break a line before a binary operator when splitting a block
style guide enforcement tools like Flake8. Since ``W503`` is not PEP 8 compliant,
you should tell Flake8 to ignore these warnings.
+
### Slices
PEP 8 [recommends](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#whitespace-in-expressions-and-statements)
enforcement tools like Flake8. Since ``E203`` is not PEP 8 compliant, you should
tell Flake8 to ignore these warnings.
+
### Parentheses
Some parentheses are optional in the Python grammar. Any expression can
In those cases, parentheses are removed when the entire statement fits
in one line, or if the inner expression doesn't have any delimiters to
-further split on. Otherwise, the parentheses are always added.
+further split on. If there is only a single delimiter and the expression
+starts or ends with a bracket, the parenthesis can also be successfully
+omitted since the existing bracket pair will organize the expression
+neatly anyway. Otherwise, the parentheses are added.
+
+Please note that *Black* does not add or remove any additional nested
+parentheses that you might want to have for clarity or further
+code organization. For example those parentheses are not going to be
+removed:
+```py3
+return not (this or that)
+decision = (maybe.this() and values > 0) or (maybe.that() and values < 0)
+```
+
+
+### Call chains
+
+Some popular APIs, like ORMs, use call chaining. This API style is known
+as a [fluent interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface).
+*Black* formats those treating dots that follow a call or an indexing
+operation like a very low priority delimiter. It's easier to show the
+behavior than to explain it. Look at the example:
+```py3
+def example(session):
+ result = (
+ session.query(models.Customer.id)
+ .filter(
+ models.Customer.account_id == account_id,
+ models.Customer.email == email_address,
+ )
+ .order_by(models.Customer.id.asc())
+ .all()
+ )
+```
+
### Typing stub files
Use [joslarson.black-vscode](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=joslarson.black-vscode).
+
### SublimeText 3
Use [sublack plugin](https://github.com/jgirardet/sublack).
+
### IPython Notebook Magic
Use [blackcellmagic](https://github.com/csurfer/blackcellmagic).
+
### Other editors
Atom/Nuclide integration is planned by the author, others will
## Change Log
-### 18.5a0 (unreleased)
+### 18.5b0
+
+* call chains are now formatted according to the
+ [fluent interfaces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface)
+ style (#67)
+
+* data structure literals (tuples, lists, dictionaries, and sets) are
+ now also always exploded like imports when they don't fit in a single
+ line (#152)
* slices are now formatted according to PEP 8 (#178)
* typing stub files (`.pyi`) are now formatted in a style that is consistent
with PEP 484 (#207, #210)
+* progress when reformatting many files is now reported incrementally
+
* fixed trailers (content with brackets) being unnecessarily exploded
- into their own lines after a dedented closing bracket
+ into their own lines after a dedented closing bracket (#119)
* fixed an invalid trailing comma sometimes left in imports (#185)
* fixed non-deterministic formatting when multiple pairs of removable parentheses
were used (#183)
+* fixed multiline strings being unnecessarily wrapped in optional
+ parentheses in long assignments (#215)
+
* fixed not splitting long from-imports with only a single name
* fixed Python 3.6+ file discovery by also looking at function calls with
* fixed crash on dealing with optional parentheses (#193)
+* fixed "is", "is not", "in", and "not in" not considered operators for
+ splitting purposes
+
* fixed crash when dead symlinks where encountered
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