# Switching to using a universal code formatter

**URL:** https://discourse.beets.io/t/switching-to-using-a-universal-code-formatter/1431
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 25, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/switching-to-using-a-universal-code-formatter/1431 "2020-07-25T04:53:17Z")
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### Author: ![arogl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/arogl/32/455_2.png) [@arogl](https://discourse.beets.io/u/arogl)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/switching-to-using-a-universal-code-formatter/1431/2 "2020-07-25T06:40:19Z")

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The big question is do we accept black’s default or add some of our style changes:

–skip-string-normalization  
–line-length = 79

I do have diffs for comparison of

black  
black --skip-string-normalization  
black --skip-string-normalization --line-length = 79  
autopep8 --ignore E241,E731,W503,F405,901,FI12,FI14,FI15,FI50,FI51,FI53 [**PR 3673**](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/3673)

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