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Re: gofmt - python has black now. It's excellent. Pylint solves the undefined variable issue, but it is annoying as hell and always requires configuration. I w

Re: gofmt - python has black now. It's excellent. Pylint solves the undefined variable issue, but it is annoying as hell and always requires configuration. I wish there was a linter for python that didn't care about 80 character limit and was careful not to drown important errors with unimportant stylistic tics.

fermigier 8y ago
Black is excellent ideed, and solves the problem of having code compatible with PEP8 once and for all. flake8 is a linter that doesn't need much config, and you can config it to give you only "serious" errors and not stylistic issues. I gave a talk on these subjects last year at the Paris Open Source Summit: https://speakerdeck.com/sfermigier/python-quality-engineering-a-tour-of-best-practices https://speakerdeck.com/sfermigier/python-quality-engineerin... (NB: Black didn't exist yet at the time).
- crdoconnor 8y ago
  flake8, like black, shouldn't really require any config on most projects yet annoyingly it always requires at least a little. I really would switch to another tool in a heartbeat if they could just fix that. Ideally instead of needing to be told whether to only show "serious" errors, for instance, it should just give you a project "score" (sum of the errors x their severity) and show the top 20 or so errors in order of importance and by default it should never exit with error code 1 with just stylistic errors unless explicitly configured to do so.
  - shloub 8y ago
    Have you tried pyflakes?
    - crdoconnor 8y ago
      No, and I think you just made my day. Thanks! Or rather, I'd vaguely heard the name but I erroneously thought it was just another flake8 type thing.
      - camel_Snake 8y ago
        pyllama is another project in the same space which I like. It uses pyflakes under the hood. https://github.com/klen/pylama https://github.com/klen/pylama
- g8oz 8y ago
  Black? Why the undifferentiated name? Another OSS naming fail.
divan 8y ago
The real benefit of gofmt is that it's zero-config and used by 100%±1 Go developers. Virtually all Go code is properly formatted and in the same style. It's priceless.

fermigier 8y ago

Black is excellent ideed, and solves the problem of having code compatible with PEP8 once and for all. flake8 is a linter that doesn't need much config, and you can config it to give you only "serious" errors and not stylistic issues. I gave a talk on these subjects last year at the Paris Open Source Summit: https://speakerdeck.com/sfermigier/python-quality-engineering-a-tour-of-best-practices https://speakerdeck.com/sfermigier/python-quality-engineerin... (NB: Black didn't exist yet at the time).

crdoconnor 8y ago
flake8, like black, shouldn't really require any config on most projects yet annoyingly it always requires at least a little. I really would switch to another tool in a heartbeat if they could just fix that. Ideally instead of needing to be told whether to only show "serious" errors, for instance, it should just give you a project "score" (sum of the errors x their severity) and show the top 20 or so errors in order of importance and by default it should never exit with error code 1 with just stylistic errors unless explicitly configured to do so.
- shloub 8y ago
  Have you tried pyflakes?
  - crdoconnor 8y ago
    No, and I think you just made my day. Thanks! Or rather, I'd vaguely heard the name but I erroneously thought it was just another flake8 type thing.
    - camel_Snake 8y ago
      pyllama is another project in the same space which I like. It uses pyflakes under the hood. https://github.com/klen/pylama https://github.com/klen/pylama
g8oz 8y ago
Black? Why the undifferentiated name? Another OSS naming fail.

divan 8y ago

The real benefit of gofmt is that it's zero-config and used by 100%±1 Go developers. Virtually all Go code is properly formatted and in the same style. It's priceless.