How to setup Black and pre-commit in python for auto text-formatting on commit

• pre-commit

  192 12,049 8.0 Python

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

  

Today we are going to look at how to setup Black (a python code formatter) and pre-commit (a package for handling git hooks in python) to automatically format you code on commit.

• black-pre-commit-example-setup

  1 0 5.1 Python

  Example repo for article showing how to setup Black and pre-commit for text-formatting in python

All the Code used in this article can be found on this GitHub repo here

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• black

  322 37,376 9.4 Python

  The uncompromising Python code formatter

  

$ 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(+)

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