Topics covered in this episode:

mdformat
pre-commit-uv
PEP 758 and 781
Serie: rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic
Extras
Joke

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Brian #1: mdformat

Suggested by Matthias Schöttle
Last episode Michael covered blacken-docs, and I mentioned it’d be nice to have an autoformatter for text markdown.
Matthias delivered with suggesting mdformat
“Mdformat is an opinionated Markdown formatter that can be used to enforce a consistent style in Markdown files.”
A python project that can be run on the command line.
Uses a style guide I mostly agree with.
- I’m not a huge fan of numbered list items all being “1.”, but that can be turned off with --number, so I’m happy.
- Converts underlined headings to #, ##, etc. headings.
- Lots of other sane conventions.
- The numbering thing is also sane, I just think it also makes the raw markdown hard to read.
Has a plugin system to format code blocks

Michael #2: pre-commit-uv

via Ben Falk
Use uv to create virtual environments and install packages for pre-commit.

Brian #3: PEP 758 and 781

PEP 758 – Allow except and except* expressions without parentheses
- accepted
PEP 781 – Make TYPE_CHECKING a built-in constant
- draft status
Also, PEP Index by Category kinda rocks

Michael #4: Serie: rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic

While some users prefer to use Git via CLI, they often rely on a GUI or feature-rich TUI to view commit logs.
Others may find git log --graph sufficient.
Goals
- Provide a rich git log --graph experience in the terminal.
- Offer commit graph-centric browsing of Git repositories.

Extras

Michael:

Joke: Wishing for wishes

#426 Committing to Formatted Markdown

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