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who cares what it looks like. it's meaningless (as long as it doesn't break things, which black doesn't). the only thing that matters is consistency.


the outputted code should at least be decently readable and predictable, otherwise I don't see the point of having a formatter at all.


>the outputted code should at least be decently readable

black isn't an uglifier/minifier. it's undoubtedly readable.

>predictable

why?




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