PyDev Formatter

Features

This package provides a command line API to use the PyDev Code Formatter (the PyDev Code formatter is created by extracting the engine for code formatting provided by PyDev: http://www.pydev.org).

The PyDev Formatter is a conservative python code formatter and will try to keep the structure of the code as close as possible to the original sources, while fixing many common issues such as:

• Keep a space after commas
• Trim spaces inside parenthesis
• Right-trim lines
• Add a space before and after operators
• Keep 2 lines before top level classes/methods
• Keep 1 line before inner classes/methods
• Add new line at end of file
• Format comments to have 2 spaces before a comment and 1 space inside the comment

Note that it does not try to break statements to fit any pre-specified line length (as gofmt).

Command line

Basic use of the formatter is:

python -m pydevf <filename_or_directory>

python -m pydevf -h may be used to see the help for additional parameters.

Installing

Requisites

• java 8+ (so, make sure java is installed and in your PATH)
• python 2.7 or 3.4 onwards
• click 6+

Install with pip

To install the PyDev Formatter use:

pip install pydevf

Using with pre-commit

To use it with pre-commit, just add the following repo to your .pre-commit-config.yaml:

-   repo: https://github.com/fabioz/PyDev.Formatter
    rev: ''  # Use the sha or tag you want to point at
    hooks:
    -   id: pydevf

Dealing with big lines

Note that in PyDev there are tools to help on those manual cases. i.e.:

Wrap docstrings/comments with Ctrl+2, W -- See: http://pydev.blogspot.com/2015/04/wrapping-docstringscomments-in-pydev.html.

Wrap/unwrap lists/calls with Ctrl+1, Wrap expression/Unwrap expression (used with cursor inside the list/call).

Daemon mode

By default the formatter will create a daemon and will reuse it among multiple invocations (because the formatter is very fast but its startup is slow). If you don't want to use this mode use the --no-daemon parameter.

License

• EPL (Eclipse Public License) 2.0

Releasing

• Update versions on setup.py and version.py
• git tag {{version}} (i.e.: v0.1.2)
• git push --tags (travis should build and deploy)

Local release

• Update versions on setup.py and version.py
• python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
• python -m twine upload dist/*