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		sgarland on Sept 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Greppability is an underrated code metric My only complaint with black is that it only splits long definitions into per-line if they exceed a limit. That’s probably configurable, now that I write it down. Other than that, I actually quite like its formatting choices.

pushfoo on Sept 4, 2024 [–]

Line length is definitely configurable. All it takes is adding the following on pyproject.toml[1]:

  [tool.black]
  line-length = 100

Aside from matrix-like or column aligned data, the only truly awful thing I've encountered has been broken f-string handling[2].

[1]: Example from https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/blob/808e1dafcf1da30f...

[2]: https://github.com/psf/black/issues/4389

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