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.
* 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>`
* Further whitespace fixes by autopep8
* Using pep8 v1.6.2 (not currently used by pyflakes)
* Update config for pep8 and flake8 in tox.ini
* A separate pep8 entry for running autopep8. The ignores prevent
blank lines being added after docstrings.
* .tox and E133 are ignored in flake8 by default.
* Added N802 to flake8 ignore as certain inherited funcs cannot be changed
to lowercase and this unresolved warning hides other errors/warnings.
* Include new header
