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Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

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365 points tanelpoder | 2 comments | 21 Aug 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ayhanfuat ◴[21 Aug 25 20:56 UTC] No.44977982[source]▶
> an experimental new command that Python developers have been waiting for: uv format

Have developers really been waiting for this? What's wrong with ruff format?

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loloquwowndueo ◴[21 Aug 25 20:58 UTC] No.44978017[source]▶
> Try out uv format in your next project and see how it fits into your development workflow. The experimental nature means your feedback could help shape how this feature evolves.

So maybe nobody has been waiting for this and the feedback will be: we don’t need this.

Also it uses ruff under the hood. If it’s integrated with uv, an advantage is one less tool to juggle.

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1. jsight ◴[21 Aug 25 21:22 UTC] No.44978255[source]▶
I've been playing around with go quite a bit lately, and now think that being bundled is actually a really serious advantage.

Being able to just to "go fmt", without needing any additional tools, is a really great thing about the language.

The only danger that I can see (and it is a big one) is that Python doesn't have the same kind of consistency that go does. It might end up failing just because so many people use Python in such different ways.

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2. worldsayshi ◴[21 Aug 25 21:42 UTC] No.44978438[source]▶
Yes, one advantage is that tools/editors will start to standardize on it. I quite enjoyed the seamless experience of go formatting as I started learning go. It felt like one less thing to worry about. Just worked.