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@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@
 
 ## Code style
 
-_Black_ reformats entire files in place. Style configuration options are deliberately
-limited and rarely added. It doesn't take previous formatting into account, except for
-the magic trailing comma and preserving newlines. It doesn't reformat blocks that start
-with `# fmt: off` and end with `# fmt: on`, or lines that ends with `# fmt: skip`.
-`# fmt: on/off` have to be on the same level of indentation. It also recognizes
+_Black_ aims for consistency, generality, readability and reducing git diffs. Similar
+language constructs are formatted with similar rules. Style configuration options are
+deliberately limited and rarely added. Previous formatting is taken into account as
+little as possible, with rare exceptions like the magic trailing comma. The coding style
+used by _Black_ can be viewed as a strict subset of PEP 8.
+
+_Black_ reformats entire files in place. It doesn't reformat lines that end with
+`# fmt: skip` or blocks that start with `# fmt: off` and end with `# fmt: on`.
+`# fmt: on/off` must be on the same level of indentation and in the same block, meaning
+no unindents beyond the initial indentation level between them. It also recognizes
 [YAPF](https://github.com/google/yapf)'s block comments to the same effect, as a
 courtesy for straddling code.
 
@@ -18,8 +23,7 @@ running `black --preview`.
 
 _Black_ ignores previous formatting and applies uniform horizontal and vertical
 whitespace to your code. The rules for horizontal whitespace can be summarized as: do
-whatever makes `pycodestyle` happy. The coding style used by _Black_ can be viewed as a
-strict subset of PEP 8.
+whatever makes `pycodestyle` happy.
 
 As for vertical whitespace, _Black_ tries to render one full expression or simple
 statement per line. If this fits the allotted line length, great.
@@ -81,6 +85,19 @@ def very_important_function(
         ...
 ```
 
+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](../guides/using_black_with_other_tools.md#isort) with the ready-made `black`
+profile or manual configuration.
+
+You might have noticed that closing brackets are always dedented and that a trailing
+comma is always added. Such formatting produces smaller diffs; when you add or remove an
+element, it's always just one line. Also, having the closing bracket dedented provides a
+clear delimiter between two distinct sections of the code that otherwise share the same
+indentation level (like the arguments list and the docstring in the example above).
+
 (labels/why-no-backslashes)=
 
 _Black_ prefers parentheses over backslashes, and will remove backslashes if found.
@@ -123,19 +140,6 @@ If you're reaching for backslashes, that's a clear signal that you can do better
 slightly refactor your code. I hope some of the examples above show you that there are
 many ways in which you can do it.
 
-You might have noticed that closing brackets are always dedented and that a trailing
-comma is always added. Such formatting produces smaller diffs; when you add or remove an
-element, it's always just one line. Also, having the closing bracket dedented provides a
-clear delimiter between two distinct sections of the code that otherwise share the same
-indentation level (like the arguments list and the docstring in the example above).
-
-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](../guides/using_black_with_other_tools.md#isort) with the ready-made `black`
-profile or manual configuration.
-
 ### Line length
 
 You probably noticed the peculiar default line length. _Black_ defaults to 88 characters
@@ -284,6 +288,26 @@ multiple lines. This is so that _Black_ is compliant with the recent changes in
 [PEP 8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#should-a-line-break-before-or-after-a-binary-operator)
 style guide, which emphasizes that this approach improves readability.
 
+Almost all operators will be surrounded by single spaces, the only exceptions are unary
+operators (`+`, `-`, and `~`), and power operators when both operands are simple. For
+powers, an operand is considered simple if it's only a NAME, numeric CONSTANT, or
+attribute access (chained attribute access is allowed), with or without a preceding
+unary operator.
+
+```python
+# For example, these won't be surrounded by whitespace
+a = x**y
+b = config.base**5.2
+c = config.base**runtime.config.exponent
+d = 2**5
+e = 2**~5
+
+# ... but these will be surrounded by whitespace
+f = 2 ** get_exponent()
+g = get_x() ** get_y()
+h = config['base'] ** 2
+```
+
 ### Slices
 
 PEP 8
@@ -376,16 +400,16 @@ recommended code style for those files is more terse than PEP 8:
 _Black_ enforces the above rules. There are additional guidelines for formatting `.pyi`
 file that are not enforced yet but might be in a future version of the formatter:
 
-- all function bodies should be empty (contain `...` instead of the body);
-- do not use docstrings;
 - prefer `...` over `pass`;
-- for arguments with a default, use `...` instead of the actual default;
 - avoid using string literals in type annotations, stub files support forward references
   natively (like Python 3.7 code with `from __future__ import annotations`);
 - use variable annotations instead of type comments, even for stubs that target older
-  versions of Python;
-- for arguments that default to `None`, use `Optional[]` explicitly;
-- use `float` instead of `Union[int, float]`.
+  versions of Python.
+
+### Line endings
+
+_Black_ will normalize line endings (`\n` or `\r\n`) based on the first line ending of
+the file.
 
 ## Pragmatism
 
@@ -433,15 +457,15 @@ the latter are treated as true raw strings with no special semantics.
 
 ### AST before and after formatting
 
-When run with `--safe`, _Black_ checks that the code before and after is semantically
-equivalent. This check is done by comparing the AST of the source with the AST of the
-target. There are three limited cases in which the AST does differ:
+When run with `--safe` (the default), _Black_ checks that the code before and after is
+semantically equivalent. This check is done by comparing the AST of the source with the
+AST of the target. There are three limited cases in which the AST does differ:
 
 1. _Black_ cleans up leading and trailing whitespace of docstrings, re-indenting them if
    needed. It's been one of the most popular user-reported features for the formatter to
    fix whitespace issues with docstrings. While the result is technically an AST
-   difference, due to the various possibilities of forming docstrings, all realtime use
-   of docstrings that we're aware of sanitizes indentation and leading/trailing
+   difference, due to the various possibilities of forming docstrings, all real-world
+   uses of docstrings that we're aware of sanitize indentation and leading/trailing
    whitespace anyway.
 
 1. _Black_ manages optional parentheses for some statements. In the case of the `del`