I am excited by the release of YAPF [1], a gofmt-like too for python. I think it has the potential to simplify style enforcement, and as much as I appreciate our current hacking checks, I’d be much happier not requiring developers to manually conform to them. Maybe we can consider automation in a manner similar to that employed by the go codereview tool [2]? Cheers, Maru 1: https://github.com/google/yapf 2: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/review/git-codereview#hdr-Gofmt