black VS flake8

Compare black vs flake8 and see what are their differences.

black

The uncompromising Python code formatter [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/black] (by python)
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

black

Posts with mentions or reviews of black. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-12.
  • A Tale of Two Kitchens - Hypermodernizing Your Python Code Base
    31 projects | dev.to | 12 Nov 2023
    To get all your code into a consistent format the next step is to run a formatter. I recommend black, the well-known uncompromising code formatter, which is the most popular choice. Alternatives to black are autoflake, prettier and yapf, if you do not agree with blacks constraints.
  • GitHub - Netflix-Skunkworks/policyuniverse: Parse and Process AWS IAM Policies, Statements, ARNs, and wildcards.
    3 projects | /r/Python | 4 Feb 2022
  • Make your Django project newbie contributor friendly with pre-commit
    5 projects | dev.to | 4 Jul 2021
    $ pre-commit install pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit $ git add .pre-commit-config.yaml $ git commit -m "Add pre-commit config" [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/pycqa/isort. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/python/black. [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/pycqa/isort. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/python/black. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... Trim Trailing Whitespace.................................................Passed Check Yaml...............................................................Passed Check for merge conflicts................................................Passed Debug Statements (Python)............................(no files to check)Skipped Check for added large files..............................................Passed Fix requirements.txt.................................(no files to check)Skipped Check django project for potential problems..........(no files to check)Skipped Check django project for missing migrations..........(no files to check)Skipped flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped isort................................................(no files to check)Skipped black................................................(no files to check)Skipped

flake8

Posts with mentions or reviews of flake8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-19.
  • How I start every new Python backend API project
    14 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2023
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.3.0 hooks: - id: trailing-whitespace - id: check-merge-conflict - id: check-yaml args: [--unsafe] - id: check-json - id: detect-private-key - id: end-of-file-fixer - repo: https://github.com/timothycrosley/isort rev: 5.10.1 hooks: - id: isort - repo: https://github.com/psf/black rev: 22.8.0 hooks: - id: black - repo: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8 rev: 3.9.2 hooks: - id: flake8 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy rev: v0.971 hooks: - id: mypy args: [ --warn-unused-configs, --ignore-missing-imports, --disallow-untyped-defs, --follow-imports=silent, --install-types, --non-interactive ]
  • Flake8 took down the gitlab repository in favor of github
    13 projects | /r/Python | 14 Nov 2022
    I just ran `pre-commit autoupdate`. It's asking for a username for https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8. :-(
  • flake8-length: Flake8 plugin for a smart line length validation.
    3 projects | /r/Python | 4 Oct 2022
    Flake8 plugin for a smart line length validation.
  • Should I follow the warnings in Pycharm? Does anyone do this?
    6 projects | /r/learnpython | 18 Jul 2022
    repo: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8 rev: 3.9.2 hooks:
  • flake8-pylint: Flake8 plugin that runs PyLint
    3 projects | /r/Python | 14 Apr 2022
    Flake8 plugin that runs PyLint.
  • Ask HN: Did somebody have success with the migration of Python 2.7 to Java/C#?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2021
  • Make your Django project newbie contributor friendly with pre-commit
    5 projects | dev.to | 4 Jul 2021
    $ pre-commit install pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit $ git add .pre-commit-config.yaml $ git commit -m "Add pre-commit config" [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/pycqa/isort. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/python/black. [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/pycqa/isort. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/python/black. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... Trim Trailing Whitespace.................................................Passed Check Yaml...............................................................Passed Check for merge conflicts................................................Passed Debug Statements (Python)............................(no files to check)Skipped Check for added large files..............................................Passed Fix requirements.txt.................................(no files to check)Skipped Check django project for potential problems..........(no files to check)Skipped Check django project for missing migrations..........(no files to check)Skipped flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped isort................................................(no files to check)Skipped black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
  • On unit testing
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 8 Mar 2021
    If you're looking for just good automated error checking, I personally use a bunch of flake8 plugins via pre-commit hooks: flake8-bugbear, flake8-builtins, flake8-bandit, etc. You can find a bunch of sites that give recommended plugins and you just need to pick which ones you care about :)
  • Python: Setting Up Project Environment
    12 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2020
    flake8 is Python style checker based on PEP8(Python Enhance Proposal 8). black is a good code formatter. But some items such as Documentation String, black is not provided the check option. flake8 not only helps for lack of black but also can be easily applied with black.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing black and flake8 you can also consider the following projects:

Flake8 - flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.

pyright - Static Type Checker for Python

autopep8 - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide.

yapf - A formatter for Python files

blue - The slightly less uncompromising Python code formatter.

pyre-check - Performant type-checking for python.

docformatter - Formats docstrings to follow PEP 257

mypy - Optional static typing for Python

isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.

pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

pre-commit-hooks - Some out-of-the-box hooks for pre-commit

ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.