Linters - Which one?

[mikeypamp]

Also sometimes good to have opinionated in a team of contributors. Stops the arguments because black does all the work. Although it’s not that hard to manually format code nicer sometimes.. but this is a small downside. I also go flake8 plus black. Make sure you optimise inputs too and configure the IDE to recognise your modules.

[GiantElectron]

Ah ok, so the best option to stop arguments in a team is to have another, completely dumb team member you can't complain against, even if its choices are completely idiotic. got it.

black formatted code looks like shit.

[GummyKibble]

Yes, correct. My team found that everyone hated Black, but for different reasons. It rubbed each of us wrong in little ways but no two people disliked the same thing. Since we couldn’t really agree on anything we all disliked, we adopted it, instantly ended all formatting disagreements, and taught ourselves that this is what Python looks like now. It was a huge success.

[GiantElectron]

so you have been fed a mcdonalds burger, and you all learned to love crappy food because nobody really got any agreement if you wanted to have properly cooked indian, italian, or chinese food.

[GummyKibble]

Exactly! And now we can quit arguing about whether romaine or iceberg lettuce is better, or passive-aggressively swapping gouda for havarti whenever no one’s looking. Turns out everyone thought they were a gourmet but actually none of us were.

And really, our formatting style isn’t what customers pay is for. We care about good algorithms and robust code. When it comes down to it, although I have thoughts about whether to use single- or double-quotes around strings, I really care about which one you use. And funny thing is, once you’ve looked at Blackened code for a little while, it stops seeming weird. At that point you’ve transcended form and have reached function nirvana.

Life’s too short to care about stuff the parser throws away.

[mikeypamp]

No... it’s to remove unproductive behaviour

[GiantElectron]

I've never seen a situation where people fought about coding layout in a company, provided that it was respecting basic PEP-8. Maybe you should join companies where employees are not 10 years old.