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Having worked in Python for many years, I can tell you that nobody actually writes code that looks like Blacks formatting.

It's a major step backward for the Python community.

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Having worked in Python and other languages for many years, I can tell you that 1) this doesn't matter and 2) many of the ways people write Python are much uglier than the conventional formatting in other languages. Most notably:

    this_is_my_very_long_function_name_and_here_come_the_args(self,
                                                              foo,
                                                              bar,
                                                              baz)

Yay! This. Where else do we recommend arbitrary indentation levels? Nowhere. So...which is the "foolish consistency" then? Is it consistent indentation rules? Or consistently lining up arguments with function/method opening parentheses?

Disagree. It’s extremely close to the Django style guide for example. And it’s very close to the style guide we adopted at $work$.

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