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		amelius on May 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter Why not let every user apply their own formatter? I bet that with a little work in the toolchain (git, editors, less), you can make this work.

andrewprock on May 17, 2019 [–]

Mostly because it's impossible to autoformat code well. You can only just barely get to "good enough".

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