cblack 22.6.0

The customized uncompromising code formatter.

cblack

Custom Black Code Formatter for Python with 2-space indents

Same rules as Black, only with two-space indents.

Installation

cblack can be installed by running pip3 install cblack.

It requires Python 3.7+ to run but you can reformat Python 2 and Python 3.x code as well (although you should run cblack with a Python 3.7+ interpreter).

NOTE: Running cblack with Python 3.6 is no longer supported since black itself is failing as well.

Usage

python -m cblack {source_file_or_directory}

Options

python -m cblack --help

You can also go to https://github.com/psf/black for the latest options available

Why

After a long discussion about indentation levels it was decided by the main author that:

Two space indents are not distinct enough to be recommended by the Black coding style.

The whole pourpose of this project is to provide an alternative to black, with the exact same rules and behaviour, but using 2 spaces for indentation instead of 4. All other black options are still supported.

Second reason is that Google YAPF is not able to produce same output as black (mostly because of function arguments indentation), otherwise, if it was possible to do it, I would not have created this project.

How

I'm a busy man. I don't want to spend my time pulling latest changes from black regularly, so I've created a small package that depends on black and overrides a method to reindent using two spaces. Shall black developers break this behaviour I might end up cloning the whole project. But the aim of this project would still be the same.

Similar projects

• YAPF
• Autopep8
• pep8ify
• pyfmt
• prettier in node
• gofmt in go
• rustfmt in rust

Versioning

This project will try to follow the same versioning as black itself, so any changes introduced in black formatting will be reflected in this project as well.

As black project states:

 This is made explicit by the “Beta” trove classifier, as well as by 
 the “b” in the version number. What this means for you is that until
 the formatter becomes stable, you should expect some formatting to change
 in the future.

Credits

All the credit is deserved to the people who created black on the first place.

Please visit black website:

• https://github.com/ambv/black