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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.