[Chicago] Python Code Beautifiers

[Garrett Smith]

Samir,

I agree with Kumar -- *he* is an excellent code beautifier. I believe he is available under one of the "free beer" licenses.

Cheers!

----- "Kumar McMillan" <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Samir.
> 
> while beautifiers are important for C-like languages (java, php,
> perl,
> etc) I think you'll find that after working in Python they are not so
> important.  This is mainly because indentation is forced upon you. 
> In
> my experience, using a code formatter is important when rogue editors
> mess up indentation (some emacs modes do this).  Since this results
> in
> an immediate syntax error in python, it's not something to worry
> about.
> 
> Using a beautifier is also important when there is a lack of
> discipline on a team but obviously then you have a bigger problem. 
> If
> you are on a team where you feel the need to run everything through a
> code formatter I'd suggest instead to try requiring code reviews
> before a developer can check in his/her code to trunk.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_review
> A quick code review will often catch most formatting mistakes (and
> laziness, like lines greater than 80 chars).  A code review is also a
> psychological device that makes devs try harder to make things
> readable by other devs :)
> 
> It also helps a team to agree on some conventions for your team to
> follow.  I.E. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Samir Faci <samir.list at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> >    I've been sort of lurking around for a while, and just started to
> get a
> > bit more active with python.  Now, I know that python is just
> beautiful and
> > we all love how pretty it looks, especially compared to some other
> languages
> > *cough* perl *cough*.  That being said, I was wondering if anyone
> knew of
> > any code beautifiers for python.
> >
> > The ones I've been able to find have limited functionality.  ie
> reindent.py
> > to fix your tabbing, and PythonTidy which I think may do what I
> want, but
> > for some reason has no config file, aside from editing the .py
> file.
> >
> > Just looking for something like uncrustify for c++/java, where I can
> specify
> > a format, as far as how I want my function definitions to look like,
> my if,
> > else, etc to look like and allow my beautifier to traverse a list of
> .py
> > files and generate a prettier version of the .py file.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated, if anyone has used any.
> >
> > --
> > Samir
> >
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