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

[Alexander Walters]

What coding style would be used for such a tool?  PEP-8?  What about a 
tool for those of us who believe that PEP-8 got a few things wrong?

What about for the tribal knowledge that pythonistas develop over time 
that are not part of the standard?  Would such a tool include this?

And what of third party tools that do the same thing?  I have no 
evidence to support this, but I have the feeling that when the standard 
library includes something in a new space, third party work in that 
space slows (json and sqlite come to mind).

Good coding style really should not be something we ship in the library, 
it should be something we teach.

2¢

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Nicholas Chammas 
<nicholas.chammas at gmail.com <mailto:nicholas.chammas at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     First class means it's like a language feature. Actually, in my
>     case I am using "first-class" and "included with the language"
>     synonymously. Not sure if that's appropriate terminology, but
>     that's what I mean.
>
>     To explain by rough analogy, Twisted is to asyncio what autopep8
>     would be to a first-class auto-styler. (I say "rough" because I
>     understand that Twisted is not supposed to be replaced entirely by
>     asyncio, but I hope my point is clear.)
>
>     Nick
>
>     On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us
>     <mailto:ethan at stoneleaf.us>> wrote:
>
>         On 03/17/2015 06:54 PM, Nicholas Chammas wrote:
>
>         > I am not proposing putting |autopep8| in the standard
>         library. I am proposing that an auto-styler be included with
>         > Python as a first-class utility. The emphasis here is on
>         /included/ and /first-class/.
>
>         Perhaps you could explain what you mean by a /first-class/
>         utility?
>
>         --
>         ~Ethan~
>
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