[Python-ideas] gofmt for Python: standardized styling as a language feature

[Nicholas Chammas]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> So, is your proposal that autopep8 (and therefore pep8, on which it
> depends) be added to the stdlib with only minor changes?


Not necessarily, though that is certainly a possible approach. (In fact,
it's probably the approach most likely to succeed, since it builds on
existing and tested tools.)

I was more interested in first testing the _idea_ of an included
auto-styler before proposing a specific path to implementing it.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
 wrote:

Unlike Go-lang, which has the resources of Google behind it and can just
> pay some person or persons to work on this with as high a priority as
> Google wishes to give it, Python is reliant on volunteers. For major
> proposals like this, you're likely to get much more traction if you are
> volunteering yourself, rather than just hoping to convince somebody else
> to volunteer.
>

Totally understood and agreed. To be upfront, I am not volunteering myself
for this effort just yet.

This is my first time posting to python-ideas. (I subscribed today.) I
gather from Andrew and Steven's responses that ideas discussed on this list
are supposed to be more "fully baked" than my proposal here. My apologies.

For what it's worth, I certainly wouldn't expect myself or anyone else to
invest any effort in an initiative like this if there is a chance that it
will be rejected for reasons that can be explained upfront.

On the other hand, if there is some consensus that this would be good thing
to have at least in theory, then perhaps that would better set the stage
for it to happen in practice. Hence the motivation for my original post.

Nick
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