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2022

Compiling Black with mypyc (via) Richard Si is a Black contributor who recently obtained a 2x performance boost by compiling Black using the mypyc tool from the mypy project, which uses Python type annotations to generate a compiled C version of the Python logic. He wrote up this fantastic three-part series describing in detail how he achieved this, including plenty of tips on Python profiling and clever optimization tricks.

# 31st May 2022, 11:24 pm / performance, python, mypy, black

Black 22.1.0 (via) Black, the uncompromising code formatter for Python, has had its first stable non-beta release after almost four years of releases. I adopted Black a few years ago for all of my projects and I wouldn’t release Python code without it now—the productivity boost I get from not spending even a second thinking about code formatting and indentation is huge.

I know Django has been holding off on adopting it until a stable release was announced, so hopefully that will happen soon.

# 30th January 2022, 1:23 am / django, python, lukasz-langa, black

How I build a feature

I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. I thought it would be useful to describe the process I use for adding a new feature to one of them, using the new sqlite-utils create-database command as an example.

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2020

How to cheat at unit tests with pytest and Black

I’ve been making a lot of progress on Datasette Cloud this week. As an application that provides private hosted Datasette instances (initially targeted at data journalists and newsrooms) the majority of the code I’ve written deals with permissions: allowing people to form teams, invite team members, promote and demote team administrators and suchlike.

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2018

Black Onlline Demo (via) Black is “the uncompromising Python code formatter” by Łukasz Langa—it reformats Python code to a very carefully thought out styleguide, and provides almost no options for how code should be formatted. It’s reminiscent of gofmt. José Padilla built a handy online tool for trying it out in your browser.

# 25th April 2018, 5:17 am / python, lukasz-langa, black