#21306 Conflict between docformatter --check and --in-place options when using Pants Issue created by totaln Describe the bug When using Pants with docformatter, there's a conflict between the

--check

and

--in-place

options. Even though only

--check

is specified in the configuration, the error message suggests that

--in-place

is being added somewhere in the process. This prevents docformatter from running correctly through Pants. Specifically, when running:

pants --docformatter-args="--check --diff" lint test.py

The following error is encountered:

ProcessExecutionFailure: Process 'Run Docformatter on 1 file.' failed with exit code 2.
stderr:
docformatter: error: argument -c/--check: not allowed with argument -i/--in-place

Pants version 2.2.1 OS MacOS Additional info 1. Configuration in `pants.toml`:

[GLOBAL]
pants_version = "2.21.1"
backend_packages.add = [
  "pants.backend.python.lint.docformatter",
  # ... other backends ...
]


[docformatter]
args = ["--check", "--diff"]

1. Running docformatter directly on the file works as expected. 2. Attempts to resolve: Explicitly added

--no-in-place

to the args in pants.toml. Updated Pants to the latest version (2.21.1). Checked for conflicting configurations in other files. 3. Questions: Why is the`--in-place` option being added when not specified? How can this conflict be resolved by running docformatter with

--check

through Pants? Is there a known issue with docformatter integration in Pants 2.21.1? pantsbuild/pants