- Cell magics are now only processed if they are known Python cell magics. Earlier, all
cell magics were tokenized, leading to possible indentation errors e.g. with
%%writefile
. (#2630) - Fixed Python 3.10 support on platforms without ProcessPoolExecutor (#2631)
- Fixed
match
statements with open sequence subjects, likematch a, b:
ormatch a, *b:
(#2639) (#2659) - Fixed
match
/case
statements that containmatch
/case
soft keywords multiple times, likematch re.match()
(#2661) - Fixed assignment to environment variables in Jupyter Notebooks (#2642)
- Add
flake8-simplify
andflake8-comprehensions
plugins (#2653)
- Bumped regex version minimum to 2021.4.4 to fix Pattern class usage (#2621)
- Warn about Python 2 deprecation in more cases by improving Python 2 only syntax detection (#2592)
- Add experimental PyPy support (#2559)
- Add partial support for the match statement. As it's experimental, it's only enabled
when
--target-version py310
is explicitly specified (#2586) - Add support for parenthesized with (#2586)
- Declare support for Python 3.10 for running Black (#2562)
- Fixed vim plugin with Python 3.10 by removing deprecated distutils import (#2610)
- The vim plugin now parses
skip_magic_trailing_comma
from pyproject.toml (#2613)
- Document stability policy, that will apply for non-beta releases (#2529)
- Add new
--workers
parameter (#2514) - Fixed feature detection for positional-only arguments in lambdas (#2532)
- Bumped typed-ast version minimum to 1.4.3 for 3.10 compatibility (#2519)
- Fixed a Python 3.10 compatibility issue where the loop argument was still being passed even though it has been removed (#2580)
- Deprecate Python 2 formatting support (#2523)
- Remove dependency on aiohttp-cors (#2500)
- Bump required aiohttp version to 3.7.4 (#2509)
- Add primer support for --projects (#2555)
- Print primer summary after individual failures (#2570)
- Allow to pass
target_version
in the vim plugin (#1319) - Install build tools in docker file and use multi-stage build to keep the image size down (#2582)
- Fix missing modules in self-contained binaries (#2466)
- Fix missing toml extra used during installation (#2475)
- Add support for formatting Jupyter Notebook files (#2357)
- Move from
appdirs
dependency toplatformdirs
(#2375) - Present a more user-friendly error if .gitignore is invalid (#2414)
- The failsafe for accidentally added backslashes in f-string expressions has been hardened to handle more edge cases during quote normalization (#2437)
- Avoid changing a function return type annotation's type to a tuple by adding a trailing comma (#2384)
- Parsing support has been added for unparenthesized walruses in set literals, set comprehensions, and indices (#2447).
- Pin
setuptools-scm
build-time dependency version (#2457) - Exclude typing-extensions version 3.10.0.1 due to it being broken on Python 3.10 (#2460)
- Replace sys.exit(-1) with raise ImportError as it plays more nicely with tools that scan installed packages (#2440)
- The provided pre-commit hooks no longer specify
language_version
to avoid overridingdefault_language_version
(#2430)
- Configuration files using TOML features higher than spec v0.5.0 are now supported (#2301)
- Add primer support and test for code piped into black via STDIN (#2315)
- Fix internal error when
FORCE_OPTIONAL_PARENTHESES
feature is enabled (#2332) - Accept empty stdin (#2346)
- Provide a more useful error when parsing fails during AST safety checks (#2304)
- Add new
latest_release
tag automation to follow latest black release on docker images (#2374)
- The vim plugin now searches upwards from the directory containing the current buffer instead of the current working directory for pyproject.toml. (#1871)
- The vim plugin now reads the correct string normalization option in pyproject.toml (#1869)
- The vim plugin no longer crashes Black when there's boolean values in pyproject.toml (#1869)
- Fix failure caused by
fmt: skip
and indentation (#2281) - Account for += assignment when deciding whether to split string (#2312)
- Correct max string length calculation when there are string operators (#2292)
- Fixed option usage when using the
--code
flag (#2259) - Do not call
uvloop.install()
when Black is used as a library (#2303) - Added
--required-version
option to require a specific version to be running (#2300) - Fix incorrect custom breakpoint indices when string group contains fake f-strings (#2311)
- Fix regression where
R
prefixes would be lowercased for docstrings (#2285) - Fix handling of named escapes (
\N{...}
) when--experimental-string-processing
is used (#2319)
- The official Black action now supports choosing what version to use, and supports the major 3 OSes. (#1940)
- A space is no longer inserted into empty docstrings (#2249)
- Fix handling of .gitignore files containing non-ASCII characters on Windows (#2229)
- Respect
.gitignore
files in all levels, not onlyroot/.gitignore
file (apply.gitignore
rules likegit
does) (#2225) - Restored compatibility with Click 8.0 on Python 3.6 when LANG=C used (#2227)
- Add extra uvloop install + import support if in python env (#2258)
- Fix --experimental-string-processing crash when matching parens are not found (#2283)
- Make sure to split lines that start with a string operator (#2286)
- Fix regular expression that black uses to identify f-expressions (#2287)
- Add a lower bound for the
aiohttp-cors
dependency. Only 0.4.0 or higher is supported. (#2231)
- Release self-contained x86_64 MacOS binaries as part of the GitHub release pipeline (#2198)
- Always build binaries with the latest available Python (#2260)
- Add discussion of magic comments to FAQ page (#2272)
--experimental-string-processing
will be enabled by default in the future (#2273)- Fix typos discovered by codespell (#2228)
- Fix Vim plugin installation instructions. (#2235)
- Add new Frequently Asked Questions page (#2247)
- Fix encoding + symlink issues preventing proper build on Windows (#2262)
- Refactor
src/black/__init__.py
into many files (#2206)
- Replaced all remaining references to the
master
branch with themain
branch. Some additional changes in the source code were also made. (#2210) - Sigificantly reorganized the documentation to make much more sense. Check them out by heading over to the stable docs on RTD. (#2174)
- Set
--pyi
mode if--stdin-filename
ends in.pyi
(#2169) - Stop detecting target version as Python 3.9+ with pre-PEP-614 decorators that are being called but with no arguments (#2182)
- Add
--no-diff
to black-primer to suppress formatting changes (#2187)
-
Fix crash if the user configuration directory is inaccessible. (#2158)
-
Clarify circumstances in which Black may change the AST (#2159)
-
Allow
.gitignore
rules to be overridden by specifyingexclude
inpyproject.toml
or on the command line. (#2170)
- Install
primer.json
(used byblack-primer
by default) with black. (#2154)
-
Fix crash on docstrings ending with "\ ". (#2142)
-
Fix crash when atypical whitespace is cleaned out of dostrings (#2120)
-
Reflect the
--skip-magic-trailing-comma
and--experimental-string-processing
flags in the name of the cache file. Without this fix, changes in these flags would not take effect if the cache had already been populated. (#2131) -
Don't remove necessary parentheses from assignment expression containing assert / return statements. (#2143)
- Bump pathspec to >= 0.8.1 to solve invalid .gitignore exclusion handling
-
Fixed a rare but annoying formatting instability created by the combination of optional trailing commas inserted by
Black
and optional parentheses looking at pre-existing "magic" trailing commas. This fixes issue #1629 and all of its many many duplicates. (#2126) -
Black
now processes one-line docstrings by stripping leading and trailing spaces, and adding a padding space when needed to break up """". (#1740) -
Black
now cleans up leading non-breaking spaces in comments (#2092) -
Black
now respects--skip-string-normalization
when normalizing multiline docstring quotes (#1637) -
Black
no longer removes all empty lines between non-function code and decorators when formatting typing stubs. NowBlack
enforces a single empty line. (#1646) -
Black
no longer adds an incorrect space after a parenthesized assignment expression in if/while statements (#1655) -
Added
--skip-magic-trailing-comma
/-C
to avoid using trailing commas as a reason to split lines (#1824) -
fixed a crash when PWD=/ on POSIX (#1631)
-
fixed "I/O operation on closed file" when using --diff (#1664)
-
Prevent coloured diff output being interleaved with multiple files (#1673)
-
Added support for PEP 614 relaxed decorator syntax on python 3.9 (#1711)
-
Added parsing support for unparenthesized tuples and yield expressions in annotated assignments (#1835)
-
added
--extend-exclude
argument (PR #2005) -
speed up caching by avoiding pathlib (#1950)
-
--diff
correctly indicates when a file doesn't end in a newline (#1662) -
Added
--stdin-filename
argument to allow stdin to respect--force-exclude
rules (#1780) -
Lines ending with
fmt: skip
will now be not formatted (#1800) -
PR #2053: Black no longer relies on typed-ast for Python 3.8 and higher
-
PR #2053: Python 2 support is now optional, install with
python3 -m pip install black[python2]
to maintain support. -
Exclude
venv
directory by default (#1683) -
Fixed "Black produced code that is not equivalent to the source" when formatting Python 2 docstrings (#2037)
- Self-contained native Black binaries are now provided for releases via GitHub Releases (#1743)
- explicitly depend on Click 7.1.2 or newer as
Black
no longer works with versions older than 7.0
-
re-implemented support for explicit trailing commas: now it works consistently within any bracket pair, including nested structures (#1288 and duplicates)
-
Black
now reindents docstrings when reindenting code around it (#1053) -
Black
now shows colored diffs (#1266) -
Black
is now packaged using 'py3' tagged wheels (#1388) -
Black
now supports Python 3.8 code, e.g. star expressions in return statements (#1121) -
Black
no longer normalizes capital R-string prefixes as those have a community-accepted meaning (#1244) -
Black
now uses exit code 2 when specified configuration file doesn't exit (#1361) -
Black
now works on AWS Lambda (#1141) -
added
--force-exclude
argument (#1032) -
removed deprecated
--py36
option (#1236) -
fixed
--diff
output when EOF is encountered (#526) -
fixed
# fmt: off
handling around decorators (#560) -
fixed unstable formatting with some
# type: ignore
comments (#1113) -
fixed invalid removal on organizing brackets followed by indexing (#1575)
-
introduced
black-primer
, a CI tool that allows us to run regression tests against existing open source users of Black (#1402) -
introduced property-based fuzzing to our test suite based on Hypothesis and Hypothersmith (#1566)
-
implemented experimental and disabled by default long string rewrapping (#1132), hidden under a
--experimental-string-processing
flag while it's being worked on; this is an undocumented and unsupported feature, you lose Internet points for depending on it (#1609)
- prefer virtualenv packages over global packages (#1383)
-
added support for PEP 572 assignment expressions (#711)
-
added support for PEP 570 positional-only arguments (#943)
-
added support for async generators (#593)
-
added support for pre-splitting collections by putting an explicit trailing comma inside (#826)
-
added
black -c
as a way to format code passed from the command line (#761) -
--safe now works with Python 2 code (#840)
-
fixed grammar selection for Python 2-specific code (#765)
-
fixed feature detection for trailing commas in function definitions and call sites (#763)
-
# fmt: off
/# fmt: on
comment pairs placed multiple times within the same block of code now behave correctly (#1005) -
Black no longer crashes on Windows machines with more than 61 cores (#838)
-
Black no longer crashes on standalone comments prepended with a backslash (#767)
-
Black no longer crashes on
from
...import
blocks with comments (#829) -
Black no longer crashes on Python 3.7 on some platform configurations (#494)
-
Black no longer fails on comments in from-imports (#671)
-
Black no longer fails when the file starts with a backslash (#922)
-
Black no longer merges regular comments with type comments (#1027)
-
Black no longer splits long lines that contain type comments (#997)
-
removed unnecessary parentheses around
yield
expressions (#834) -
added parentheses around long tuples in unpacking assignments (#832)
-
added parentheses around complex powers when they are prefixed by a unary operator (#646)
-
fixed bug that led Black format some code with a line length target of 1 (#762)
-
Black no longer introduces quotes in f-string subexpressions on string boundaries (#863)
-
if Black puts parenthesis around a single expression, it moves comments to the wrapped expression instead of after the brackets (#872)
-
blackd
now returns the version of Black in the response headers (#1013) -
blackd
can now output the diff of formats on source code when theX-Diff
header is provided (#969)
-
new option
--target-version
to control which Python versions Black-formatted code should target (#618) -
deprecated
--py36
(use--target-version=py36
instead) (#724) -
Black no longer normalizes numeric literals to include
_
separators (#696) -
long
del
statements are now split into multiple lines (#698) -
type comments are no longer mangled in function signatures
-
improved performance of formatting deeply nested data structures (#509)
-
Black now properly formats multiple files in parallel on Windows (#632)
-
Black now creates cache files atomically which allows it to be used in parallel pipelines (like
xargs -P8
) (#673) -
Black now correctly indents comments in files that were previously formatted with tabs (#262)
-
blackd
now supports CORS (#622)
-
numeric literals are now formatted by Black (#452, #461, #464, #469):
-
numeric literals are normalized to include
_
separators on Python 3.6+ code -
added
--skip-numeric-underscore-normalization
to disable the above behavior and leave numeric underscores as they were in the input -
code with
_
in numeric literals is recognized as Python 3.6+ -
most letters in numeric literals are lowercased (e.g., in
1e10
,0x01
) -
hexadecimal digits are always uppercased (e.g.
0xBADC0DE
)
-
-
added
blackd
, see its documentation for more info (#349) -
adjacent string literals are now correctly split into multiple lines (#463)
-
trailing comma is now added to single imports that don't fit on a line (#250)
-
cache is now populated when
--check
is successful for a file which speeds up consecutive checks of properly formatted unmodified files (#448) -
whitespace at the beginning of the file is now removed (#399)
-
fixed mangling pweave and Spyder IDE special comments (#532)
-
fixed unstable formatting when unpacking big tuples (#267)
-
fixed parsing of
__future__
imports with renames (#389) -
fixed scope of
# fmt: off
when directly precedingyield
and other nodes (#385) -
fixed formatting of lambda expressions with default arguments (#468)
-
fixed
async for
statements: Black no longer breaks them into separate lines (#372) -
note: the Vim plugin stopped registering
,=
as a default chord as it turned out to be a bad idea (#415)
- hotfix: don't freeze when multiple comments directly precede
# fmt: off
(#371)
-
typing stub files (
.pyi
) now have blank lines added after constants (#340) -
# fmt: off
and# fmt: on
are now much more dependable:-
they now work also within bracket pairs (#329)
-
they now correctly work across function/class boundaries (#335)
-
they now work when an indentation block starts with empty lines or misaligned comments (#334)
-
-
made Click not fail on invalid environments; note that Click is right but the likelihood we'll need to access non-ASCII file paths when dealing with Python source code is low (#277)
-
fixed improper formatting of f-strings with quotes inside interpolated expressions (#322)
-
fixed unnecessary slowdown when long list literals where found in a file
-
fixed unnecessary slowdown on AST nodes with very many siblings
-
fixed cannibalizing backslashes during string normalization
-
fixed a crash due to symbolic links pointing outside of the project directory (#338)
-
added
--config
(#65) -
added
-h
equivalent to--help
(#316) -
fixed improper unmodified file caching when
-S
was used -
fixed extra space in string unpacking (#305)
-
fixed formatting of empty triple quoted strings (#313)
-
fixed unnecessary slowdown in comment placement calculation on lines without comments
-
hotfix: don't output human-facing information on stdout (#299)
-
hotfix: don't output cake emoji on non-zero return code (#300)
-
added
--include
and--exclude
(#270) -
added
--skip-string-normalization
(#118) -
added
--verbose
(#283) -
the header output in
--diff
now actually conforms to the unified diff spec -
fixed long trivial assignments being wrapped in unnecessary parentheses (#273)
-
fixed unnecessary parentheses when a line contained multiline strings (#232)
-
fixed stdin handling not working correctly if an old version of Click was used (#276)
-
Black now preserves line endings when formatting a file in place (#258)
-
added
--pyi
(#249) -
added
--py36
(#249) -
Python grammar pickle caches are stored with the formatting caches, making Black work in environments where site-packages is not user-writable (#192)
-
Black now enforces a PEP 257 empty line after a class-level docstring (and/or fields) and the first method
-
fixed invalid code produced when standalone comments were present in a trailer that was omitted from line splitting on a large expression (#237)
-
fixed optional parentheses being removed within
# fmt: off
sections (#224) -
fixed invalid code produced when stars in very long imports were incorrectly wrapped in optional parentheses (#234)
-
fixed unstable formatting when inline comments were moved around in a trailer that was omitted from line splitting on a large expression (#238)
-
fixed extra empty line between a class declaration and the first method if no class docstring or fields are present (#219)
-
fixed extra empty line between a function signature and an inner function or inner class (#196)
-
call chains are now formatted according to the fluent interfaces style (#67)
-
data structure literals (tuples, lists, dictionaries, and sets) are now also always exploded like imports when they don't fit in a single line (#152)
-
slices are now formatted according to PEP 8 (#178)
-
parentheses are now also managed automatically on the right-hand side of assignments and return statements (#140)
-
math operators now use their respective priorities for delimiting multiline expressions (#148)
-
optional parentheses are now omitted on expressions that start or end with a bracket and only contain a single operator (#177)
-
empty parentheses in a class definition are now removed (#145, #180)
-
string prefixes are now standardized to lowercase and
u
is removed on Python 3.6+ only code and Python 2.7+ code with theunicode_literals
future import (#188, #198, #199) -
typing stub files (
.pyi
) are now formatted in a style that is consistent with PEP 484 (#207, #210) -
progress when reformatting many files is now reported incrementally
-
fixed trailers (content with brackets) being unnecessarily exploded into their own lines after a dedented closing bracket (#119)
-
fixed an invalid trailing comma sometimes left in imports (#185)
-
fixed non-deterministic formatting when multiple pairs of removable parentheses were used (#183)
-
fixed multiline strings being unnecessarily wrapped in optional parentheses in long assignments (#215)
-
fixed not splitting long from-imports with only a single name
-
fixed Python 3.6+ file discovery by also looking at function calls with unpacking. This fixed non-deterministic formatting if trailing commas where used both in function signatures with stars and function calls with stars but the former would be reformatted to a single line.
-
fixed crash on dealing with optional parentheses (#193)
-
fixed "is", "is not", "in", and "not in" not considered operators for splitting purposes
-
fixed crash when dead symlinks where encountered
- don't populate the cache on
--check
(#175)
-
added a "cache"; files already reformatted that haven't changed on disk won't be reformatted again (#109)
-
--check
and--diff
are no longer mutually exclusive (#149) -
generalized star expression handling, including double stars; this fixes multiplication making expressions "unsafe" for trailing commas (#132)
-
Black no longer enforces putting empty lines behind control flow statements (#90)
-
Black now splits imports like "Mode 3 + trailing comma" of isort (#127)
-
fixed comment indentation when a standalone comment closes a block (#16, #32)
-
fixed standalone comments receiving extra empty lines if immediately preceding a class, def, or decorator (#56, #154)
-
fixed
--diff
not showing entire path (#130) -
fixed parsing of complex expressions after star and double stars in function calls (#2)
-
fixed invalid splitting on comma in lambda arguments (#133)
-
fixed missing splits of ternary expressions (#141)
-
fixed parsing of unaligned standalone comments (#99, #112)
-
fixed placement of dictionary unpacking inside dictionary literals (#111)
-
Vim plugin now works on Windows, too
-
fixed unstable formatting when encountering unnecessarily escaped quotes in a string (#120)
-
added
--quiet
(#78) -
added automatic parentheses management (#4)
-
added pre-commit integration (#103, #104)
-
fixed reporting on
--check
with multiple files (#101, #102) -
fixed removing backslash escapes from raw strings (#100, #105)
-
added
--diff
(#87) -
add line breaks before all delimiters, except in cases like commas, to better comply with PEP 8 (#73)
-
standardize string literals to use double quotes (almost) everywhere (#75)
-
fixed handling of standalone comments within nested bracketed expressions; Black will no longer produce super long lines or put all standalone comments at the end of the expression (#22)
-
fixed 18.3a4 regression: don't crash and burn on empty lines with trailing whitespace (#80)
-
fixed 18.3a4 regression:
# yapf: disable
usage as trailing comment would cause Black to not emit the rest of the file (#95) -
when CTRL+C is pressed while formatting many files, Black no longer freaks out with a flurry of asyncio-related exceptions
-
only allow up to two empty lines on module level and only single empty lines within functions (#74)
-
# fmt: off
and# fmt: on
are implemented (#5) -
automatic detection of deprecated Python 2 forms of print statements and exec statements in the formatted file (#49)
-
use proper spaces for complex expressions in default values of typed function arguments (#60)
-
only return exit code 1 when --check is used (#50)
-
don't remove single trailing commas from square bracket indexing (#59)
-
don't omit whitespace if the previous factor leaf wasn't a math operator (#55)
-
omit extra space in kwarg unpacking if it's the first argument (#46)
-
omit extra space in Sphinx auto-attribute comments (#68)
-
don't remove single empty lines outside of bracketed expressions (#19)
-
added ability to pipe formatting from stdin to stdin (#25)
-
restored ability to format code with legacy usage of
async
as a name (#20, #42) -
even better handling of numpy-style array indexing (#33, again)
-
changed positioning of binary operators to occur at beginning of lines instead of at the end, following a recent change to PEP 8 (#21)
-
ignore empty bracket pairs while splitting. This avoids very weirdly looking formattings (#34, #35)
-
remove a trailing comma if there is a single argument to a call
-
if top level functions were separated by a comment, don't put four empty lines after the upper function
-
fixed unstable formatting of newlines with imports
-
fixed unintentional folding of post scriptum standalone comments into last statement if it was a simple statement (#18, #28)
-
fixed missing space in numpy-style array indexing (#33)
-
fixed spurious space after star-based unary expressions (#31)
-
added
--check
-
only put trailing commas in function signatures and calls if it's safe to do so. If the file is Python 3.6+ it's always safe, otherwise only safe if there are no
*args
or**kwargs
used in the signature or call. (#8) -
fixed invalid spacing of dots in relative imports (#6, #13)
-
fixed invalid splitting after comma on unpacked variables in for-loops (#23)
-
fixed spurious space in parenthesized set expressions (#7)
-
fixed spurious space after opening parentheses and in default arguments (#14, #17)
-
fixed spurious space after unary operators when the operand was a complex expression (#15)
-
first published version, Happy 🍰 Day 2018!
-
alpha quality
-
date-versioned (see: https://calver.org/)