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On 4/19/19 1:05 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 quite hate some of the changes it made, e.g. 
https://review.opendev.org/#/c/653876/1/openstack/baremetal/v1/_proxy.py@296 is 
a horrible waste of screen space, while 
https://review.opendev.org/#/c/653876/1/openstack/baremetal/v1/node.py@267 also 
looks pretty weird to me.

> 
> I also did -l 79 - because it's important.
> 
> I'd get so many stackalytics points for the +55540, -39832 :)
> 
> Monty
>