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24th April 2022

TIL Format code examples in documentation with blacken-docs — I decided to enforce that all code examples in the [Datasette documentation](https://docs.datasette.io/) be formatted using [Black](https://github.com/psf/black). Here's [issue 1718](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1718) where I researched the options for doing this.

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Posted 24th April 2022 at 4:16 pm

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