Python Formatter Tool

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I was wondering if there exists a sort of Python beautifier like the gnu-indent command line tool for C code. Of course indentation is not the point in Python since it is programmer's responsibility but I wish to get my code written in a perfectly homogenous way, taking care particularly of having always identical blank space between operands or after and before separators and between blocks.

See also this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9242748/programmatic-python-source-formatter — tricasse, Jul 03 '14 at 19:15
Does this answer your question? [Programmatic python source formatter](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9242748/programmatic-python-source-formatter) — Oliver Sieweke, Mar 27 '20 at 13:49

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '09 at 09:55

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I am the one who asks the question. In fact, the tool the closest to my needs seems to be PythonTidy (it's a Python program of course : Python is best served by himself ;) ).

answered Oct 01 '09 at 09:55

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Thanks, I'm using PythonTidy now thanks to this, and it's proving useful. It uses the proper mechanism - i.e. the compiler.ast module to parse source into an AST, then walks the AST nodes getting them to write themselves out according to user-defined rules. The code is also very clear, so understanding and modifying its workings to suit my particular standards did not present much difficulty. Though I guess you'd expect clear code from someone who cares deeply enough about formatting to write an automated tool! 10/10 – Mike A Mar 01 '10 at 17:49

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 29 '14 at 18:26

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autopep8 attempts to automate making your code conform to pep8 coding standards

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/autopep8

answered Sep 29 '14 at 18:26

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 31 '17 at 09:31

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You can also try yapf:

A formatter for Python files

https://github.com/google/yapf/

answered Oct 31 '17 at 09:31

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 23 '09 at 12:57

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PyLint has some formatting checks.

answered Jun 23 '09 at 12:57

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 23 '09 at 12:57

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Have you looked at pindent?

answered Jun 23 '09 at 12:57

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The link seems broken. – Tadeusz Kopec for Ukraine Jun 01 '17 at 10:01

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 31 '20 at 12:53

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black is another recent option.

It provides deliberate and fast code formatting and is used by many projects such as pytest, SQLAlchemy and Pillow to name a few.

answered Mar 31 '20 at 12:53

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Python Formatter Tool

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