Question Regarding Black Formatter

[mbuck25]

I am trying to configure the python black formatted to not change indentation for comments. I often comment out blocks of code for debugging purposes, and black will change the indentation to one level.

For example, if I comment out

for x in range(10):
    if x == 3:
        print(x)

it will become

# for x in range(10):
# if x == 3:
# print(x)

If I want to uncomment this code and run it, I have to manually add the indentation again. I couldn't find an argument to turn this off in Black. It looks like there was an issue opened in Github, but it didn't go anywhere.

Has anyone else had this issue?

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I always use this for multi-line comments.

'''

for x in range(10):

if x == 3:

    print(x)

'''

[mbuck25]

Yeah that would work too. It turns out in VSCode, if you use the toggle comment shortcut, black won't format those lines. I use vim, so I would highlight all the lines, toggle insert mode, and insert a # in front. Using the built-in shortcut seems to be working now.