White is a fork of Black with the following differences:
- White doesn't downgrade strings to double quotes.
- (WIP) White doesn't go overboard with separate indented lines.
- White uses 120 line length instead of 88, which is sensible since computer screens are larger now then were when 88 was popularized.
White can be installed by running pip install git+https://github.com/iMerica/white.git@master. It requires
Python 3.6.0+ to run but you can reformat Python 2 code with it, too.
To get started right away with sensible defaults:
white {source_file_or_directory}
White doesn't provide many options. You can list them by running
white --help:
white [OPTIONS] [SRC]...
Options:
-l, --line-length INTEGER Where to wrap around. [default: 120]
--py36 Allow using Python 3.6-only syntax on all input
files. This will put trailing commas in function
signatures and calls also after *args and
**kwargs. [default: per-file auto-detection]
--pyi Format all input files like typing stubs
regardless of file extension (useful when piping
source on standard input).
Don't normalize string quotes or prefixes.
--check Don't write the files back, just return the
status. Return code 0 means nothing would
change. Return code 1 means some files would be
reformatted. Return code 123 means there was an
internal error.
--diff Don't write the files back, just output a diff
for each file on stdout.
--fast / --safe If --fast given, skip temporary sanity checks.
[default: --safe]
--include TEXT A regular expression that matches files and
directories that should be included on
recursive searches. On Windows, use forward
slashes for directories. [default: \.pyi?$]
--exclude TEXT A regular expression that matches files and
directories that should be excluded on
recursive searches. On Windows, use forward
slashes for directories. [default:
build/|buck-out/|dist/|_build/|\.git/|\.hg/|
\.mypy_cache/|\.tox/|\.venv/]
-q, --quiet Don't emit non-error messages to stderr. Errors
are still emitted, silence those with
2>/dev/null.
-v, --verbose Also emit messages to stderr about files
that were not changed or were ignored due to
--exclude=.
--version Show the version and exit.
--config PATH Read configuration from PATH.
--help Show this message and exit.