black
The uncompromising Python code formatter [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/black] (by python)
RestrictedPython
A restricted execution environment for Python to run untrusted code. (by zopefoundation)
| black | RestrictedPython | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 | |
| 21,526 | 730 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 9.3 | 5.7 | |
| almost 5 years ago | 17 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
black
Posts with mentions or reviews of black.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-12.
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A Tale of Two Kitchens - Hypermodernizing Your Python Code Base
To get all your code into a consistent format the next step is to run a formatter. I recommend black, the well-known uncompromising code formatter, which is the most popular choice. Alternatives to black are autoflake, prettier and yapf, if you do not agree with blacks constraints.
- GitHub - Netflix-Skunkworks/policyuniverse: Parse and Process AWS IAM Policies, Statements, ARNs, and wildcards.
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Make your Django project newbie contributor friendly with pre-commit
$ pre-commit install pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit $ git add .pre-commit-config.yaml $ git commit -m "Add pre-commit config" [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/pycqa/isort. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/python/black. [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/pycqa/isort. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/python/black. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... Trim Trailing Whitespace.................................................Passed Check Yaml...............................................................Passed Check for merge conflicts................................................Passed Debug Statements (Python)............................(no files to check)Skipped Check for added large files..............................................Passed Fix requirements.txt.................................(no files to check)Skipped Check django project for potential problems..........(no files to check)Skipped Check django project for missing migrations..........(no files to check)Skipped flake8...............................................(no files to check)Skipped isort................................................(no files to check)Skipped black................................................(no files to check)Skipped
RestrictedPython
Posts with mentions or reviews of RestrictedPython.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-02-06.
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Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
There's been a constant stream of v8 VM sandbox escapes since its dawn of course.
And Python VM had/has rexec and https://github.com/zopefoundation/RestrictedPython
- RestrictedPython
- How can I prevent python from accessing files outside of the work directory?
- GitHub - zopefoundation/RestrictedPython: A restricted execution environment for Python to run untrusted code.
- A restricted execution environment for Python to run untrusted code
What are some alternatives?
When comparing black and RestrictedPython you can also consider the following projects:
autopep8 - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide.
code2vec - TensorFlow code for the neural network presented in the paper: "code2vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Code"
Flake8 - flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.
tryceratops - A linter to prevent exception handling antipatterns in Python (limited only for those who like dinosaurs).
blue - The slightly less uncompromising Python code formatter.
pyRAPL - a library to measure the python energy consumption of python code