blue is a somewhat less uncompromising code formatter than black, the OG of Python formatters.
This is free and open source software.
Some of the differences between blue and black:
- blue defaults to single-quoted strings. For all other strings, blue defaults to single quoted strings. In the case of docstrings, those always use TQS with double-quotes.
- blue defaults to line lengths of 79 characters. Nearly every project creates a pyproject.toml just to change this one setting so making it consistent with PEP 8 seems relatively harmless.
- blue preserves the whitespace before the hash mark for right hanging comments.
- blue supports multiple config files: pyproject.toml, setup.cfg, tox.ini, and .blue.
Website: github.com/grantjenks/blue
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Developer: Grant Jenks and Barry Warsaw
License: Apache License 2.0
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