As of 26.1, Black forces 1 line after imports which—no matter how you feel about that—conflicts with flake8’s E302 that enforces 2 empty lines btw classes/functions.
I've been told that it was in --preview for a yr & nobody complained… I can hear Douglas Adams giggling.
As one of the OG Black cheerleaders this makes me sad since this change seems entirely unnecessary. Making THE Python-based formatter incompatible w/ THE Python-based linter… This was the fallback in case of a ruff rugpull. 🙁
@hynek I get two empty lines?
import math
def thing():
print(math.pi)
->
import math
def thing():
print(math.pi)
@hynek Urgh, Mastodon collapsing whitespace! Let's try again...
And seven Rs in strawberry.
@hynek I don't follow, Black's done this since its first 18.3a0, and Ruff since at least 0.0.292.
And neither Flake8 nor Ruff complain about E302.
@hugovk Black has kept out of imports before 26.1, unless you ran --preview. It's part of “2026 stable style”. Dunno if there's some subtlety around flake8 but Towncrier uses Black + isort and after begrudgingly setting `tool.isort.lines_after_imports = 1`, I got a screen full of E302s and I'm officially giving up.
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