The move to using auto-formatter makes it easier to read, submit and
speeds up development time. https://github.com/ambv/black/
Although I would prefer 79 chars, the default line length of 88 chars
used by black suffices. The flake8 line length remains at 120 chars
since black does not touch comments or docstrings and this will require
another round of fixes.
The only black setting that is not standard is the use of double-quotes
for strings so disabled any formatting of these. Note however that
flake8 will still flag usage of double-quotes. I may change my mind on
double vs single quotes but for now leave them.
A new pyproject.toml file has been created for black configuration.
Some new flake8 checkers were added so fix these new warnings and
any issues uncovered.
Use add-trailing-comma to fix missing trailing commas. It does not
format it as well as I would like however it was fast to change and
helps with git changes in future.
Removed pylint from tox due to large number of warnings.
* Added `from __future__ import unicode_literals` to every file so
now all strings in code are forced to be unicode strings unless
marked as byte string `b'str'` or encoded to byte string `'str'.encode('utf-8')`.
This is a large change but we have been working towards the goal of unicode
strings passed in the code so decoding external input and encoding
output as byte strings (where applicable).
Note that in Python 2 the `str` type still refers to byte strings.
* Replaced the use of `str` for `basestring` in isinstance comparison as
this was the original intention but breaks code when encoutering unicode strings.
* Marked byte strings in gtkui as the conversion to utf8 is not always handled, mostly
related to gobject signal names.
- The name needed to be more descriptive of it's function.
- Moved into ui directory because of upcoming changes being made to setup.py
meant it would be easier to include all the 'common' ui files if there
are no sub-dirs such as 'util'.
* A rather disruptive change but for a few reasons such as easier to read,
easier type, keep consistent and javascript code uses single quotes.
* There are a few exceptions for the automated process:
* Any double quotes in comments
* Triple double quotes for docstrings
* Strings containing single quotes are left e.g. "they're"
* To deal with merge conflicts from feature branches it is best to follow
these steps for each commit:
* Create a patch: `git format-patch -1 <sha1>`
* Edit the patch and replace double quotes with single except those in
comments or strings containing an unescaped apostrophe.
* Check the patch `git apply --check <patchfile>` and fix any remaining
issues if it outputs an error.
* Apply the patch `git am < <patchfile>`
* Use print function
* Fix except as statements
* Remove old twisted 8 code
* Remove empty docstring
* Refactor try statement to only contain the relevant import and
disable pylint import msgs.
* Use flake8 noqa and pylint comment and drop pyflakes workarounds.
* component registry shutdown() now cleans up the component list
this ensures that no old components are left when running unit
tests.
* Added class BaseTestCase that all tests that create components
should inherit from. It verifies the compoent list before and
after the tests are run.
