About a year ago I started using the black formatter tool for all my new Python projects. I wrote about it here, explaining why it seemed like a good idea at the time, and left open the question of whether I would stick with it.
So, have I? Yes. I do not agree with all of the decisions that black makes when formatting my code, but I appreciate the consistency it gives and the reduced cognitive load of worrying about formatting the code before committing to Git. Most of my projects aren’t large collaborations, but I think it would be even more valuable for those. So, thumbs up to the black devs. And I invite you to try it out if you haven’t yet… See what the Zen of not worrying about formatting feels like.
P.S.: I am a very finicky code formatter. I love things like vertically-aligned operators and vertically-aligned in-code comments. Black doesn’t always do what I want in these cases, but at least I can shrug and say “well, that’s just how it is”. Again, reduced cognitive load — no need to sweat the small stuff if black is going to change it anyway. “Just learn to let go.”