Python Code Formatting Made Simple With Git Pre-commit Hooks

Write code that everyone will fall in love with

Thuwarakesh Murallie
Towards Data Science
4 min readOct 18, 2021

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Pre-commit hooks to automate python code formatting using Black, Isort, and Autoflake.
Pre-commit hooks to automate python code formatting using Black, Isort, and Autoflake. — Photo by The Dark Queen on Unsplash

Python has become the world’s most popular programming language because of its elegant syntax. But this alone doesn’t ensure a clean, readable code.

The Python community had evolved to create standards to make codebases created by different programmers look…

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