Is there a way to disable individual pythonstyle checks? We want to start using

black

, but some of its choices go against some of the checks

Yes, see:

$ ./pants options | grep pycheck | grep ignore

pycheck-pycodestyle.ignore = ['E121', 'E124', 'E125', 'E127', 'E128', 'E401', 'E111', 'W291', 'W293', 'E701', 'E301', 'E302', 'W292'] (from HARDCODED)
pycheck-pyflakes.ignore = [] (from HARDCODED)

In this specific case, I think you want to add to the default

pycheck-pycodestyle.ignore

, ie add something like this to your `pants.ini`:

$ cat << EOF >> pants.ini
> [pycheck-pycodestyle]
> ignore: +['W503']
> EOF

Which will yield:

$ ./pants options | grep pycheck | grep ignore

pycheck-pycodestyle.ignore = ['E121', 'E124', 'E125', 'E127', 'E128', 'E401', 'E111', 'W291', 'W293', 'E701', 'E301', 'E302', 'W292', 'W503'] (from CONFIG in pants.ini)
pycheck-pyflakes.ignore = [] (from HARDCODED)

I got that particular value from here: https://pycodestyle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#error-codes

@fierce-park-88503: we'd love a contrib plugin for

black

if you have the time!

@fierce-park-88503 indeed! I’ve been wanting to do it but haven’t found the time with starting teaching. I’d be happy to help with reviews (although am fairly unavailable most the day for immediate help with things)