yamllint VS black

Compare yamllint vs black and see what are their differences.

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yamllint black
11 322
2,706 37,376
- 1.3%
8.3 9.4
2 months ago about 11 hours ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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yamllint

Posts with mentions or reviews of yamllint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-15.
  • yamllint – A Linter for YAML Files
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023
  • IT Pro Tuesday #227 - Notification Tool, SPF/DKIM/DMARC Tutorial, YAML Linter & More
    2 projects | /r/ITProTuesday | 15 Nov 2022
    yamllint, as the name suggests, is a linter for YAML files. It checks syntax validity, as well as looking for more-complex errors like key repetition and cosmetic problems such as line length, trailing spaces, indentation etc. This one was indly recommended by yankdevil.
  • StrictYAML
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2022
    StrictYAML removes features that might be useful for some usecases, such as Node anchors+Refs and Flow Style.

    I don't think the cost of an additional standard is worth it in this case.

    While YAML has issues, they aren't much of problem if you use a linter, such as yamllint [1].

    1. https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint

  • Data and System Visualization Tools That Will Boost Your Productivity
    15 projects | dev.to | 13 Jun 2022
    On top of the above-mentioned tools, it's also a good idea to use YAML linter such this one or its CLI equivalent, which will validate and cleanup your documents.
  • Anyone actually fluent in YAML?
    1 project | /r/devops | 20 Mar 2022
  • Let CI check & fix your yamls
    8 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2022
    yamlfixer automates the fixing of problems reported by yamllint by parsing its output.
  • Modern Python setup for quality development
    11 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2022
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.0.1 hooks: - id: check-added-large-files - id: check-ast - id: check-builtin-literals - id: check-case-conflict - id: check-docstring-first - id: check-executables-have-shebangs - id: check-json - id: check-merge-conflict - id: check-symlinks - id: check-toml - id: check-vcs-permalinks - id: check-xml - id: check-yaml args: [--allow-multiple-documents] - id: debug-statements - id: detect-aws-credentials args: [--allow-missing-credentials] - id: destroyed-symlinks - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: fix-byte-order-marker - id: fix-encoding-pragma args: [--remove] - id: forbid-new-submodules - id: mixed-line-ending args: [--fix=auto] - id: name-tests-test args: [--django] - id: requirements-txt-fixer - id: trailing-whitespace - repo: local hooks: - id: black name: black entry: poetry run black language: system types: [python] - id: flake8 name: flake8 entry: poetry run flake8 language: system types: [python] - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort rev: "5.9.1" hooks: - id: isort args: - --profile - black - --filter-files - repo: https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint.git rev: v1.26.1 hooks: - id: yamllint args: [-c=.yamllint.yaml] - repo: https://gitlab.com/devopshq/gitlab-ci-linter rev: v1.0.2 hooks: - id: gitlab-ci-linter args: - "--server" - "https://your.gitlab.server" # Need env var GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN with gitlab api read token - repo: https://github.com/commitizen-tools/commitizen rev: v2.17.11 hooks: - id: commitizen stages: [commit-msg] - repo: https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks rev: 2.1.5 # or specific git tag hooks: - id: forbid-binary - id: shellcheck - id: shfmt
  • YAML formatter recommendation
    1 project | /r/commandline | 3 Dec 2021
    If you wanted a linter.
  • CloudFormation Noob - using YAML
    2 projects | /r/AWS_Certified_Experts | 9 Oct 2021
    Or, run Yamllint externally. I do this, because I have more control: https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint
  • The Norway Problem
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2021
    You can catch this with yamllint (https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint):

        % cat countries.yml

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 2024-03-29.
  • How to setup Black and pre-commit in python for auto text-formatting on commit
    3 projects | dev.to | 29 Mar 2024
    $ git commit -m "add pre-commit configuration" [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/psf/black. [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/psf/black. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... black................................................(no files to check)Skipped [main 6e21eab] add pre-commit configuration 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
  • Enhance Your Project Quality with These Top Python Libraries
    16 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Black: Known as “The Uncompromising Code Formatter”, Black automatically formats your Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide. It takes away the hassle of having to manually adjust your code style.
  • Uv: Python Packaging in Rust
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
    black @ git+https://github.com/psf/black
  • Let's meet Black: Python Code Formatting
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Feb 2024
    In the realm of Python development, there is a multitude of code formatters that adhere to PEP 8 guidelines. Today, we will briefly discuss how to install and utilize black.
  • Show HN: Visualize the Entropy of a Codebase with a 3D Force-Directed Graph
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2024
    Perfect, that worked, thank you!

    I thought this could be solved by changing the directory to src/ and then executing that command, but this didn't work.

    This also seems to be an issue with the web app, e.g. the repository for the formatter black is only one white dot https://dep-tree-explorer.vercel.app/api?repo=https://github...

  • Introducing Flask-Muck: How To Build a Comprehensive Flask REST API in 5 Minutes
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Dec 2023
  • Embracing Modern Python for Web Development
    12 projects | dev.to | 8 Dec 2023
    Ruff is not only much faster, but it is also very convenient to have an all-in-one solution that replaces multiple other widely used tools: Flake8 (linter), isort (imports sorting), Black (code formatter), autoflake, many Flake8 plugins and more. And it has drop-in parity with these tools, so it is really straightforward to migrate from them to Ruff.
  • Auto-formater for Android (Kotlin)
    1 project | /r/androiddev | 5 Dec 2023
    What I am looking for is something like Black for Python, which is opinionated, with reasonable defaults, and auto-fixes most/all issues.
  • Releasing my Python Project
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Nov 2023
    1. LICENSE: This file contains information about the rights and permissions granted to users regarding the use, modification, distribution, and sharing of the software. I already had an MIT License in my project. 2. pyproject.toml: It is a configuration file typically used for specifying build requirements and backend build systems for Python projects. I was already using this file for Black code formatter configuration. 3. README.md: Used as a documentation file for your project, typically includes project overview, installation instructions and optionally, contribution instructions. 4. example_package_YOUR_USERNAME_HERE: One big change I had to face was restructuring my project, essentially packaging all files in this directory. The name of this directory should be what you want to name your package and shoud not conflict with any of the existing packages. Of course, since its a Python Package, it needs to have an __init__.py. 5. tests/: This is where you put all your unit and integration tests, I think its optional as not all projects will have tests. The rest of the project remains as is.
  • Lute v3 - installed software for learning foreign languages through reading
    2 projects | /r/flask | 15 Nov 2023
    using pylint and black ("the uncompromising code formatter")

What are some alternatives?

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

pyyaml - Canonical source repository for PyYAML

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

cue - CUE has moved to https://github.com/cue-lang/cue

prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

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

yapf - A formatter for Python files

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.

Pylint - It's not just a linter that annoys you!

edn - Extensible Data Notation

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

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.