Open Stack

On 4/18/19 7:04 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Quoting Natal Ngétal (2019-04-18 01:51:47)
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Black is project to format Python code. It's more and more used by the python
>> community. That can save time and harmonize the code. For example, simple quote
>> versus double quote, that was not checked by pep8.i It's just an example of
>> what make  black With a pre-hook commit hook this will be also avoid to lose
>> time with pep8 errors.
>>
>> Two links to see more:
>>
>> https://github.com/ambv/black
>> https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2018/python-code-black/
>>
>> I think it can be very interesting to start to use Black on OpenStack. What
>> do you thinks about that? For example, we can introduce it on some projects, I
>> would volunteer to try on TripleO.
> 
> I've read the arguments in the thread, and I really appreciate
> everyone's thoughtfulness here.
> 
> I just wanted to add that I have been using black for some internal
> projects, and it is an absolute joy to forget about code formatting.
> This is different than the pep8 checks. The git hook just does it, and
> our CI confirms that you do it, and there's no more "oops I forgot
> pep8".
> 
> I believe that the whitespace churn that folks are bringing up is being
> overblown. This is a single, automatically produced diff, that while it
> might hurt a little in git annotate and conflicts with in-flight patches
> now, there is value, and there are mitigations, that make it worth it in
> some cases.
> 
> The main value is that using an automatic formatter will ultimately lead
> to less wasted test runs, less wasted developer time, and better diffs
> with less conflicts later.
> 
> So while I appreciate the desire to not rock the boat, it might be that
> the boat would go faster after some dead weight is dropped overboard,
> and that new energy is applied to forward progress instead of "darn it,
> now I have to think about how to fit this into 80 chars and parenthesis
> and ..." >
> Basically, weigh the one time cost vs. the ongoing savings, rather than
> considering them separately.

I think it's useful to point fingers at concrete things if we're going 
to weigh costs vs savings.

Here is a patch:

https://review.openstack.org/653876

That runs openstacksdk through black and adds it to the pep8 tox env. I 
had to make two manual code changes, and add two pep8 exclusions.

I also did -l 79 - because it's important.

I'd get so many stackalytics points for the +55540, -39832 :)

Monty