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# The _Black_ code style
## Code style
_Black_ aims for consistency, generality, readability and reducing git diffs. Similar
language constructs are formatted with similar rules. Style configuration options are
deliberately limited and rarely added. Previous formatting is taken into account as
little as possible, with rare exceptions like the magic trailing comma. The coding style
used by _Black_ follows PEP 8 in spirit and enforces a consistent subset of its
formatting recommendations. It does not implement every style rule covered by PEP 8.
This document describes the current formatting style. If you're interested in trying out
where the style is heading, see [future style](./future_style.md) and try running
`black --preview`.
### How _Black_ wraps lines
_Black_ ignores previous formatting and applies uniform horizontal and vertical
whitespace to your code. The rules for horizontal whitespace can be summarized as: do
whatever makes `pycodestyle` happy.
As for vertical whitespace, _Black_ tries to render one full expression or simple
statement per line. If this fits the allotted line length, great.
```python
# in:
j = [1,
2,
3
]
# out:
j = [1, 2, 3]
```
If not, _Black_ will look at the contents of the first outer matching brackets and put
that in a separate indented line.
```python
# in:
ImportantClass.important_method(exc, limit, lookup_lines, capture_locals, extra_argument)
# out:
ImportantClass.important_method(
exc, limit, lookup_lines, capture_locals, extra_argument
)
```
If that still doesn't fit the bill, it will decompose the internal expression further
using the same rule, indenting matching brackets every time. If the contents of the
matching brackets pair are comma-separated (like an argument list, or a dict literal,
and so on) then _Black_ will first try to keep them on the same line with the matching
brackets. If that doesn't work, it will put all of them in separate lines.
```python
# in:
def very_important_function(template: str, *variables, file: os.PathLike, engine: str, header: bool = True, debug: bool = False):
"""Applies `variables` to the `template` and writes to `file`."""
with open(file, 'w') as f:
...
# out:
def very_important_function(
template: str,
*variables,
file: os.PathLike,
engine: str,
header: bool = True,
debug: bool = False,
):
"""Applies `variables` to the `template` and writes to `file`."""
with open(file, "w") as f:
...
```
If a data structure literal (tuple, list, set, dict) or a line of "from" imports cannot
fit in the allotted length, it's always split into one element per line. This minimizes
diffs as well as enables readers of code to find which commit introduced a particular
entry. This also makes _Black_ compatible with
[isort](../guides/using_black_with_other_tools.md#isort) with the ready-made `black`
profile or manual configuration.
You might have noticed that closing brackets are always dedented and that a trailing
comma is always added. Such formatting produces smaller diffs; when you add or remove an
element, it's always just one line. Also, having the closing bracket dedented provides a
clear delimiter between two distinct sections of the code that otherwise share the same
indentation level (like the arguments list and the docstring in the example above).
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_Black_ prefers parentheses over backslashes, and will remove backslashes if found.
```python
# in:
if some_short_rule1 \
and some_short_rule2:
...
# out:
if some_short_rule1 and some_short_rule2:
...
# in:
if some_long_rule1 \
and some_long_rule2:
...
# out:
if (
some_long_rule1
and some_long_rule2
):
...
```
Backslashes and multiline strings are one of the two places in the Python grammar that
break significant indentation. You never need backslashes, they are used to force the
grammar to accept breaks that would otherwise be parse errors. That makes them confusing
to look at and brittle to modify. This is why _Black_ always gets rid of them.
If you're reaching for backslashes, that's a clear signal that you can do better if you
slightly refactor your code. I hope some of the examples above show you that there are
many ways in which you can do it.
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### Line length
You probably noticed the peculiar default line length. _Black_ defaults to 88 characters
per line, which happens to be 10% over 80. This number was found to produce
significantly shorter files than sticking with 80 (the most popular), or even 79 (used
by the standard library). In general,
[90-ish seems like the wise choice](https://youtu.be/wf-BqAjZb8M?t=260).
If you're paid by the lines of code you write, you can pass `--line-length` with a lower
number. _Black_ will try to respect that. However, sometimes it won't be able to without
breaking other rules. In those rare cases, auto-formatted code will exceed your allotted
limit.
You can also increase it, but remember that people with sight disabilities find it
harder to work with line lengths exceeding 100 characters. It also adversely affects
side-by-side diff review on typical screen resolutions. Long lines also make it harder
to present code neatly in documentation or talk slides.
#### Flake8 and other linters
See [Using _Black_ with other tools](../guides/using_black_with_other_tools.md) about
linter compatibility.
### Empty lines
_Black_ avoids spurious vertical whitespace. This is in the spirit of PEP 8 which says
that in-function vertical whitespace should only be used sparingly.
_Black_ will allow single empty lines inside functions, and single and double empty
lines on module level left by the original editors, except when they're within
parenthesized expressions. Since such expressions are always reformatted to fit minimal
space, this whitespace is lost.
```python
# in:
def function(
some_argument: int,
other_argument: int = 5,
) -> EmptyLineInParenWillBeDeleted:
print("One empty line above me will be kept!")
def this_is_okay_too():
print("No empty line here")
# out:
def function(
some_argument: int,
other_argument: int = 5,
) -> EmptyLineInParenWillBeDeleted:
print("One empty line above me will be kept!")
def this_is_okay_too():
print("No empty line here")
```
It will also insert proper spacing before and after function definitions. It's one line
before and after inner functions and two lines before and after module-level functions
and classes. _Black_ will not put empty lines between function/class definitions and
standalone comments that immediately precede the given function/class.
_Black_ will enforce single empty lines between a class-level docstring and the first
following field or method. This conforms to
[PEP 257](https://peps.python.org/pep-0257/#multi-line-docstrings).
_Black_ won't insert empty lines after function docstrings unless that empty line is
required due to an inner function starting immediately after.
### Comments
_Black_ does not format comment contents, but it enforces two spaces between code and a
comment on the same line, and a space before the comment text begins. Some types of
comments that require specific spacing rules are respected: shebangs (`#! comment`), doc
comments (`#: comment`), section comments with long runs of hashes, and Spyder cells.
Non-breaking spaces after hashes are also preserved. Comments may sometimes be moved
because of formatting changes, which can break tools that assign special meaning to
them. See [AST before and after formatting](#ast-before-and-after-formatting) for more
discussion.
### Trailing commas
_Black_ will add trailing commas to expressions that are split by comma where each
element is on its own line. This includes function signatures.
One exception to adding trailing commas is function signatures containing `*`, `*args`,
or `**kwargs`. In this case a trailing comma is only safe to use on Python 3.6. _Black_
will detect if your file is already 3.6+ only and use trailing commas in this situation.
If you wonder how it knows, it looks for f-strings and existing use of trailing commas
in function signatures that have stars in them. In other words, if you'd like a trailing
comma in this situation and _Black_ didn't recognize it was safe to do so, put it there
manually and _Black_ will keep it.
A pre-existing trailing comma informs _Black_ to always explode contents of the current
bracket pair into one item per line. Read more about this in the
[Pragmatism](#pragmatism) section below.
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### Strings
_Black_ prefers double quotes (`"` and `"""`) over single quotes (`'` and `'''`). It
will replace the latter with the former as long as it does not result in more backslash
escapes than before.
_Black_ also standardizes string prefixes. Prefix characters are made lowercase with the
exception of [capital "R" prefixes](#rstrings-and-rstrings), unicode literal markers
(`u`) are removed because they are meaningless in Python 3, and in the case of multiple
characters "r" is put first as in spoken language: "raw f-string".
Another area where Python allows multiple ways to format a string is escape sequences.
For example, `"\uabcd"` and `"\uABCD"` evaluate to the same string. _Black_ normalizes
such escape sequences to lowercase, but uses uppercase for `\N` named character escapes,
such as `"\N{MEETEI MAYEK LETTER HUK}"`.
The main reason to standardize on a single form of quotes is aesthetics. Having one kind
of quotes everywhere reduces reader distraction. It will also enable a future version of
_Black_ to merge consecutive string literals that ended up on the same line (see
[#26](https://github.com/psf/black/issues/26) for details).
Why settle on double quotes? They anticipate apostrophes in English text. They match the
docstring standard described in
[PEP 257](https://peps.python.org/pep-0257/#what-is-a-docstring). An empty string in
double quotes (`""`) is impossible to confuse with a one double-quote regardless of
fonts and syntax highlighting used. On top of this, double quotes for strings are
consistent with C which Python interacts a lot with.
On certain keyboard layouts like US English, typing single quotes is a bit easier than
double quotes. The latter requires use of the Shift key. My recommendation here is to
keep using whatever is faster to type and let _Black_ handle the transformation.
If you are adopting _Black_ in a large project with pre-existing string conventions
(like the popular
["single quotes for data, double quotes for human-readable strings"](https://stackoverflow.com/a/56190)),
you can pass `--skip-string-normalization` on the command line. This is meant as an
adoption helper, avoid using this for new projects.
_Black_ also processes docstrings. Firstly the indentation of docstrings is corrected
for both quotations and the text within, although relative indentation in the text is
preserved. Superfluous trailing whitespace on each line and unnecessary new lines at the
end of the docstring are removed. All leading tabs are converted to spaces, but tabs
inside text are preserved. Whitespace leading and trailing one-line docstrings is
removed.
### Numeric literals
_Black_ standardizes most numeric literals to use lowercase letters for the syntactic
parts and uppercase letters for the digits themselves: `0xAB` instead of `0XAB` and
`1e10` instead of `1E10`.
### Line breaks & binary operators
_Black_ will break a line before a binary operator when splitting a block of code over
multiple lines. This is so that _Black_ is compliant with the recent changes in the
[PEP 8](https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#should-a-line-break-before-or-after-a-binary-operator)
style guide, which emphasizes that this approach improves readability.
Almost all operators will be surrounded by single spaces, the only exceptions are unary
operators (`+`, `-`, and `~`), and power operators when both operands are simple. For
powers, an operand is considered simple if it's only a NAME, numeric CONSTANT, or
attribute access (chained attribute access is allowed), with or without a preceding
unary operator.
```python
# For example, these won't be surrounded by whitespace
a = x**y
b = config.base**5.2
c = config.base**runtime.config.exponent
d = 2**5
e = 2**~5
# ... but these will be surrounded by whitespace
f = 2 ** get_exponent()
g = get_x() ** get_y()
h = config['base'] ** 2
```
### Slices
PEP 8
[recommends](https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#whitespace-in-expressions-and-statements)
to treat `:` in slices as a binary operator with the lowest priority, and to leave an
equal amount of space on either side, except if a parameter is omitted (e.g.
`ham[1 + 1 :]`). It recommends no spaces around `:` operators for "simple expressions"
(`ham[lower:upper]`), and extra space for "complex expressions"
(`ham[lower : upper + offset]`). _Black_ treats anything more than variable names as
"complex" (`ham[lower : upper + 1]`). It also states that for extended slices, both `:`
operators have to have the same amount of spacing, except if a parameter is omitted
(`ham[1 + 1 ::]`). _Black_ enforces these rules consistently.
This behaviour may raise `E203 whitespace before ':'` warnings in style guide
enforcement tools like Flake8. Since `E203` is not PEP 8 compliant, you should tell
Flake8 to ignore these warnings.
### Parentheses
Some parentheses are optional in the Python grammar. Any expression can be wrapped in a
pair of parentheses to form an atom. There are a few interesting cases:
- `if (...):`
- `while (...):`
- `for (...) in (...):`
- `assert (...), (...)`
- `from X import (...)`
- assignments like:
- `target = (...)`
- `target: type = (...)`
- `some, *un, packing = (...)`
- `augmented += (...)`
In those cases, parentheses are removed when the entire statement fits in one line, or
if the inner expression doesn't have any delimiters to further split on. If there is
only a single delimiter and the expression starts or ends with a bracket, the
parentheses can also be successfully omitted since the existing bracket pair will
organize the expression neatly anyway. Otherwise, the parentheses are added.
Please note that _Black_ does not add or remove any additional nested parentheses that
you might want to have for clarity or further code organization. For example those
parentheses are not going to be removed:
```python
return not (this or that)
decision = (maybe.this() and values > 0) or (maybe.that() and values < 0)
```
### Call chains
Some popular APIs, like ORMs, use call chaining. This API style is known as a
[fluent interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface). _Black_ formats
those by treating dots that follow a call or an indexing operation like a very low
priority delimiter. It's easier to show the behavior than to explain it. Look at the
example:
```python
def example(session):
result = (
session.query(models.Customer.id)
.filter(
models.Customer.account_id == account_id,
models.Customer.email == email_address,
)
.order_by(models.Customer.id.asc())
.all()
)
```
### Typing stub files
PEP 484 describes the syntax for type hints in Python. One of the use cases for typing
is providing type annotations for modules which cannot contain them directly (they might
be written in C, or they might be third-party, or their implementation may be overly
dynamic, and so on).
To solve this,
[stub files with the `.pyi` file extension](https://peps.python.org/pep-0484/#stub-files)
can be used to describe typing information for an external module. Those stub files omit
the implementation of classes and functions they describe, instead they only contain the
structure of the file (listing globals, functions, and classes with their members). The
recommended code style for those files is more terse than PEP 8:
- prefer `...` on the same line as the class/function signature;
- avoid vertical whitespace between consecutive module-level functions, names, or
methods and fields within a single class;
- use a single blank line between top-level class definitions, or none if the classes
are very small.
_Black_ enforces the above rules. There are additional guidelines for formatting `.pyi`
file that are not enforced yet but might be in a future version of the formatter:
- prefer `...` over `pass`;
- avoid using string literals in type annotations, stub files support forward references
natively (like Python 3.7 code with `from __future__ import annotations`);
- use variable annotations instead of type comments, even for stubs that target older
versions of Python.
### Line endings
_Black_ will normalize line endings (`\n` or `\r\n`) based on the first line ending of
the file.
### Form feed characters
_Black_ will retain form feed characters on otherwise empty lines at the module level.
Only one form feed is retained for a group of consecutive empty lines. Where there are
two empty lines in a row, the form feed is placed on the second line.
## Pragmatism
Early versions of _Black_ used to be absolutist in some respects. They took after its
initial author. This was fine at the time as it made the implementation simpler and
there were not many users anyway. Not many edge cases were reported. As a mature tool,
_Black_ does make some exceptions to rules it otherwise holds. This section documents
what those exceptions are and why this is the case.
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### The magic trailing comma
_Black_ in general does not take existing formatting into account.
However, there are cases where you put a short collection or function call in your code
but you anticipate it will grow in the future.
For example:
```python
TRANSLATIONS = {
"en_us": "English (US)",
"pl_pl": "polski",
}
```
Early versions of _Black_ used to ruthlessly collapse those into one line (it fits!).
Now, you can communicate that you don't want that by putting a trailing comma in the
collection yourself. When you do, _Black_ will know to always explode your collection
into one item per line.
How do you make it stop? Just delete that trailing comma and _Black_ will collapse your
collection into one line if it fits.
If you must, you can recover the behaviour of early versions of _Black_ with the option
`--skip-magic-trailing-comma` / `-C`.
### r"strings" and R"strings"
_Black_ normalizes string quotes as well as string prefixes, making them lowercase. One
exception to this rule is r-strings. It turns out that the very popular
[MagicPython](https://github.com/MagicStack/MagicPython/) syntax highlighter, used by
default by (among others) GitHub and Visual Studio Code, differentiates between
r-strings and R-strings. The former are syntax highlighted as regular expressions while
the latter are treated as true raw strings with no special semantics.
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### AST before and after formatting
When run with `--safe` (the default), _Black_ checks that the code before and after is
semantically equivalent. This check is done by comparing the AST of the source with the
AST of the target. There are three limited cases in which the AST does differ:
1. _Black_ cleans up leading and trailing whitespace of docstrings, re-indenting them if
needed. It's been one of the most popular user-reported features for the formatter to
fix whitespace issues with docstrings. While the result is technically an AST
difference, due to the various possibilities of forming docstrings, all real-world
uses of docstrings that we're aware of sanitize indentation and leading/trailing
whitespace anyway.
1. _Black_ manages optional parentheses for some statements. In the case of the `del`
statement, presence of wrapping parentheses or lack thereof changes the resulting AST
but is semantically equivalent in the interpreter.
1. _Black_ might move comments around, which includes type comments. Those are part of
the AST as of Python 3.8. While the tool implements a number of special cases for
those comments, there is no guarantee they will remain where they were in the source.
Note that this doesn't change runtime behavior of the source code.
To put things in perspective, the code equivalence check is a feature of _Black_ which
other formatters don't implement at all. It is of crucial importance to us to ensure
code behaves the way it did before it got reformatted. We treat this as a feature and
there are no plans to relax this in the future. The exceptions enumerated above stem
from either user feedback or implementation details of the tool. In each case we made
due diligence to ensure that the AST divergence is of no practical consequence.
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# The (future of the) Black code style
## Preview style
(labels/preview-style)=
Experimental, potentially disruptive style changes are gathered under the `--preview`
CLI flag. At the end of each year, these changes may be adopted into the default style,
as described in [The Black Code Style](index.md). Because the functionality is
experimental, feedback and issue reports are highly encouraged!
(labels/preview-features)=
Currently, the following features are included in the preview style:
- `wrap_comprehension_in`: Wrap the `in` clause of list and dictionary comprehensions
across lines if it would otherwise exceed the maximum line length.
([see below](labels/wrap-comprehension-in))
- `simplify_power_operator_hugging`: Use a simpler implementation of the power operator
"hugging" logic (removing whitespace around `**` in simple expressions), which applies
also in the rare case the exponentiation is split into separate lines.
([see below](labels/simplify-power-operator))
- `wrap_long_dict_values_in_parens`: Add parentheses around long values in dictionaries.
([see below](labels/wrap-long-dict-values))
- `fix_if_guard_explosion_in_case_statement`: fixed exploding of the if guard in case
patterns which have trailing commas in them, even if the guard expression fits in one
line
- `pyi_overload_group_blank_lines`: In `.pyi` stub files, improve heuristics around when
blank lines should appear before, after and within decorated function groups.
([see below](labels/pyi-overload-group))
- `pyi_blank_line_before_decorated_class`: In `.pyi` stub files, enforce a blank line
before a decorated class definition when it follows a function definition.
([see below](labels/pyi-blank-line-before-decorated-class))
- `fix_unnecessary_parens_in_indexed_assignment`: Remove unnecessary parentheses around
the right-hand side of indexed assignments (e.g. `x[key] = expr`) when the subscripted
target is too long to fit on one line and the expression fits on the tail line.
([see below](labels/fix-unnecessary-parens-indexed-assignment))
- `pyi_blank_line_after_function_docstring`: In `.pyi` stub files, enforce a blank line
after a function or method body that consists of a docstring.
([see below](labels/pyi-blank-line-after-function-docstring))
- `hug_comparator`: Don't break a comparator (`not in`, `==`, `is`, ...) away from its
left operand when the right operand is a bracketed expression that has to break
anyway; let the bracket explode instead. ([see below](labels/hug-comparator))
- `parenthesize_tuple_in_yield`: Add parentheses around tuple expressions in `yield`
statements.
(labels/wrap-comprehension-in)=
### Wrapping long comprehension `in` clauses
When a list or dictionary comprehension has a long `in` clause that would exceed the
maximum line length, Black will wrap it across multiple lines for better readability.
This helps keep comprehensions readable when the iterable expression is complex or
lengthy.
For example:
```python
# Before
result = [
very_very_very_very_very_long_item
for very_very_very_very_very_long_item in some_very_very_very_very_very_very_long_function_name
]
```
will be formatted to:
```python
# After
result = [
very_very_very_very_very_long_item
for very_very_very_very_very_long_item in (
some_very_very_very_very_very_very_long_function_name
)
]
```
This also applies to dictionary comprehensions:
```python
# Before
mapping = {
very_long_key: very_very_very_long_item
for very_long_key, very_very_very_long_item in very_very_very_very_long_function_name
}
```
will be formatted to:
```python
# After
mapping = {
very_long_key: very_very_very_long_item
for very_long_key, very_very_very_long_item in (
very_very_very_very_long_function_name
)
}
```
(labels/simplify-power-operator)=
### Simplified power operator whitespace handling
Black's power operator "hugging" logic removes whitespace around `**` in simple
expressions (e.g., `x**2` instead of `x ** 2`). This feature uses a simpler, more
consistent implementation that also applies when exponentiation is split across lines.
For example:
```python
# Simple expressions - whitespace is removed
result = x**2 + y**3
value = base**exponent
```
When the exponentiation is split across lines (rare), the simplified logic ensures
consistent formatting:
```python
# Complex expression split across lines
result = (
some_very_long_base_expression
**some_very_long_exponent_expression
**some_very_long_third_expression
)
```
This feature primarily improves the internal consistency of Black's formatting logic
rather than making dramatic visual changes to most code.
(labels/wrap-long-dict-values)=
### Improved parentheses management in dicts
For dict literals with long values, they are now wrapped in parentheses. Unnecessary
parentheses are now removed. For example:
```python
my_dict = {
"a key in my dict": a_very_long_variable
* and_a_very_long_function_call()
/ 100000.0,
"another key": (short_value),
}
```
will be changed to:
```python
my_dict = {
"a key in my dict": (
a_very_long_variable * and_a_very_long_function_call() / 100000.0
),
"another key": short_value,
}
```
(labels/pyi-overload-group)=
### Improved overload groups in stub files
In `.pyi` stub files, Black now has improved heuristics regarding when blank lines
should appear before, after or within groups of decorated functions that share the same
name (such as `@overload` groups). Two rules are applied when a decorated function is
determined to be part of a series of >=2 decorated functions with the same name:
1. **Before the decorated function**: a blank line is always inserted, unless the
preceding statement is a same-name decorated function (i.e. part of an `@overload`
group) or the function is the first statement in its block.
2. **After the decorated function**: a blank line is always inserted, unless the
following statement is a same-name decorated function.
These rules apply regardless of what the adjacent statement is — whether it's another
function definition, a variable annotation, or any other statement.
Previously, Black could insert unwanted blank lines _within_ an overload group when one
of the overloads had a docstring, and did not consistently enforce blank lines at the
boundaries of overload groups:
```python
# Before
@overload
def foo(x: int) -> int:
"""Docs."""
@overload # unwanted blank line within group
def foo(x: str) -> str: ...
def bar(x): ... # no blank line after group
```
With this feature enabled, the group is kept together and clearly separated from
surrounding code:
```python
# After (with --preview)
@overload
def foo(x: int) -> int:
"""Docs."""
@overload
def foo(x: str) -> str: ...
def bar(x): ...
```
(labels/pyi-blank-line-before-decorated-class)=
### Blank line before decorated classes in stub files
In `.pyi` stub files, Black already enforces blank lines around class definitions in
many situations. However, when a class has a decorator, Black previously failed to
enforce this, instead _removing_ the blank line between a function and the decorator:
```diff
# Before
def foo(): ...
-
@decorator
class Bar: ...
def baz(): ...
@decorator
class Spam: ...
```
With this feature enabled, a blank line is enforced, consistent with how undecorated
classes are handled:
```diff
# After (with --preview)
def foo(): ...
@decorator
class Bar: ...
def baz(): ...
+
@decorator
class Spam: ...
```
(labels/fix-unnecessary-parens-indexed-assignment)=
### Unnecessary parentheses in indexed assignments
When an assignment target ends with a subscript (e.g. `x[key] = expr`) and is too long
to fit on one line, Black has to split at the subscript's brackets. Previously it would
additionally wrap the right-hand side expression in parentheses, even when the
expression fits on the closing line. With this feature enabled, Black omits those
unnecessary parentheses.
For example:
```python
# Before
dictionary_of_arrays["long_key_name_for_the_example"][
very_long_index_name, index_zero
] = (10 - 5)
```
will be formatted to:
```python
# After (with --preview)
dictionary_of_arrays["long_key_name_for_the_example"][
very_long_index_name, index_zero
] = 10 - 5
```
Assignments whose target fits on one line are not affected: wrapping the right-hand side
in parentheses remains the preferred style there.
(labels/pyi-blank-line-after-function-docstring)=
### Blank line after function docstrings in stub files
In `.pyi` stub files, functions and methods sometimes use a docstring as their whole
body. Black already separated these definitions from a following function definition,
but did not consistently do the same before a following comment, conditional block,
variable annotation, or other statement:
```python
# Before
class Example:
def method(self) -> None:
"""Documentation."""
# comment for the next member
attr: int
```
With this feature enabled, the docstring-only function body is consistently separated
from the next comment or statement:
```python
# After (with --preview)
class Example:
def method(self) -> None:
"""Documentation."""
# comment for the next member
attr: int
```
Black still keeps same-name decorated functions, such as `@overload` groups and property
setters, together without inserting blank lines between them.
(labels/hug-comparator)=
### Keep comparators next to their left operand
When a comparator (`not in`, `==`, `is`, ...) sits inside another bracketed construct
and its right operand is a bracketed expression that has to break (either via a magic
trailing comma or because the line is too long), Black used to split the line right
before the comparator. The left operand ended up alone on its own line, visually
disconnected from the operator and the operand that explains it:
```python
# Before
x = [
t
for t in y
if t
not in {
LongNameOne,
LongNameTwo,
LongNameThree,
}
]
```
With this feature enabled, Black skips that comparator split and lets the right-hand
bracket explode instead, which it would have done anyway:
```python
# After (with --preview)
x = [
t
for t in y
if t not in {
LongNameOne,
LongNameTwo,
LongNameThree,
}
]
```
The fix is not limited to comprehensions. The same shape appears inside `if`/`elif`
chains, `assert` statements, and parenthesized expressions, and gets the same treatment:
```python
# Before
if (
is_scalar(value)
and self.dtype
in (np.dtype("float64"), np.dtype("float32"), np.dtype("object"))
and (limit is not None or inplace)
):
...
assert (
bool
is _AnnotationExtractor(attr.fields(C).x.converter.__call__).get_return_type()
)
```
```python
# After (with --preview)
if (
is_scalar(value)
and self.dtype in (
np.dtype("float64"),
np.dtype("float32"),
np.dtype("object"),
)
and (limit is not None or inplace)
):
...
assert (
bool is _AnnotationExtractor(
attr.fields(C).x.converter.__call__
).get_return_type()
)
```
## Unstable style
(labels/unstable-style)=
In the past, the preview style included some features with known bugs, so that we were
unable to move these features to the stable style. Therefore, such features are now
moved to the `--unstable` style. All features in the `--preview` style are expected to
make it to next year's stable style; features in the `--unstable` style will be
stabilized only if issues with them are fixed. If bugs are discovered in a `--preview`
feature, it is demoted to the `--unstable` style. To avoid thrash when a feature is
demoted from the `--preview` to the `--unstable` style, users can use the
`--enable-unstable-feature` flag to enable specific unstable features.
(labels/unstable-features)=
The unstable style additionally includes the following features:
- `hug_parens_with_braces_and_square_brackets`: More compact formatting of nested
brackets. ([see below](labels/hug-parens))
- `string_processing`: Split long string literals and related changes.
([see below](labels/string-processing))
(labels/hug-parens)=
### Improved multiline dictionary and list indentation for sole function parameter
For better readability and less verticality, _Black_ now pairs parentheses ("(", ")")
with braces ("{", "}") and square brackets ("[", "]") on the same line. For example:
```python
foo(
[
1,
2,
3,
]
)
nested_array = [
[
1,
2,
3,
]
]
```
will be changed to:
```python
foo([
1,
2,
3,
])
nested_array = [[
1,
2,
3,
]]
```
This also applies to list and dictionary unpacking:
```python
foo(
*[
a_long_function_name(a_long_variable_name)
for a_long_variable_name in some_generator
]
)
```
will become:
```python
foo(*[
a_long_function_name(a_long_variable_name)
for a_long_variable_name in some_generator
])
```
You can use a magic trailing comma to avoid this compacting behavior; by default,
_Black_ will not reformat the following code:
```python
foo(
[
1,
2,
3,
],
)
```
(labels/string-processing)=
### Improved string processing
_Black_ will split long string literals and merge short ones. Parentheses are used where
appropriate. When split, parts of f-strings that don't need formatting are converted to
plain strings. f-strings will not be merged if they contain internal quotes and it would
change their quotation mark style. Line continuation backslashes are converted into
parenthesized strings. Unnecessary parentheses are stripped. The stability and status of
this feature is tracked in [this issue](https://github.com/psf/black/issues/2188).
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# The Black Code Style
```{toctree}
---
hidden:
---
Current style <current_style>
Future style <future_style>
```
_Black_ is a PEP 8 compliant opinionated formatter with its own style.
While keeping the style unchanged throughout releases has always been a goal, the
_Black_ code style isn't set in stone. It evolves to accommodate for new features in the
Python language and, occasionally, in response to user feedback. Large-scale style
preferences presented in {doc}`current_style` are very unlikely to change, but minor
style aspects and details might change according to the stability policy presented
below. Ongoing style considerations are tracked on GitHub with the
[style](https://github.com/psf/black/labels/T%3A%20style) issue label.
(labels/stability-policy)=
## Stability Policy
The following policy applies for the _Black_ code style, in non pre-release versions of
_Black_:
- If code has been formatted with _Black_, it will remain unchanged when formatted with
the same options using any other release in the same calendar year.
This means projects can safely use `black ~= 26.0` without worrying about formatting
changes disrupting their project in 2026. We may still fix bugs where _Black_ crashes
on some code, and make other improvements that do not affect formatting.
In rare cases, we may make changes affecting code that has not been previously
formatted with _Black_. For example, we have had bugs where we accidentally removed
some comments. Such bugs can be fixed without breaking the stability policy.
- The first release in a new calendar year _may_ contain formatting changes, although
these will be minimised as much as possible. This is to allow for improved formatting
enabled by newer Python language syntax as well as due to improvements in the
formatting logic.
- The `--preview` and `--unstable` flags are exempt from this policy. There are no
guarantees around the stability of the output with these flags passed into _Black_.
They are intended for allowing experimentation with proposed changes to the _Black_
code style. The `--preview` style at the end of a year should closely match the stable
style for the next year, but we may always make changes.
Documentation for both the current and future styles can be found:
- {doc}`current_style`
- {doc}`future_style`