How to install black

Black is a formatter that normalises Python source layout. Development happens publicly, and releases are published by the project maintainers.

About the project

Black is formatter that normalises Python source layout. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

Governance sits with the project's own team. They decide what ships, how often it ships, and which platforms are supported.

How projects are distributed

Projects of this kind are usually reached through the operating system's package index, through a language-specific registry, or by building the published source tree. Which route applies depends on the platform and on the maintainers' own guidance.

Check compatibility first

Check platform requirements first. Recent releases usually need a current runtime and a reasonably modern system.

A quick sanity check

A version query afterwards is usually enough to confirm the environment picked it up. If the result is unexpected, the usual causes are a stale path entry or a version manager resolving to a different release.

A note about this domain

This is a notes-only domain. Projects remain documented by their own authors.