Change `.style.yapf` precedence?

[zachsiegel-capsida]

Hello,

Thank you for this plugin. I have used it for years and I appreciate it greatly.

The PyYapf.sublime-settings file's comments describe the "config" parameter as:

// custom yapf style options
// if commented out then yapf will search for the formatting style in the following manner:
...
"config" : {...},

i.e., if "config" exists, then yapf will NOT search for formatting styles...

I think PyYAPF should by default (or with a setting) first search for a .style.yapf and only defer to the "config" : {...} settings in PyYapf.sublime-settings if a .style.yapf does not exist.

I use PyYapf for all of my personal projects, but at work I committed a .style.yapf in our codebase to keep the team in sync. In order for Sublime Text to respect this file, I had to comment out my PyYapf.sublime-settings "config" variable, which makes PyYapf not work on other projects (unless they also have a .style.yapf file nearby)! That seems wrong to me.

If there is a way to configure PyYapf to respect .style.yapf before PyYapf.sublime-settings, please let me know, or otherwise please consider this a feature request (though I think it's a borderline bug).

[zachsiegel-capsida]

Note I have the use_stdin setting set to true. When I comment out "config" in the .sublime-settings, PyYapf does successfully find my .style.yapf. My issue is the precedence of different config sources. (Setting use_stdin to false does not fix this problem FYI.)

This issue discusses the relationship between use_stdin and .style.yapf, but I believe this is a separate matter.

[zachsiegel-capsida]

I understand why PyYapf is the way it is - if there is no "config" in .sublime-settings, it lets Yapf search for the settings file(s). It's probably bad to re-implement searching for .style.yapf and setup.cfg since Yapf already does that.

One solution would be if YAPF had a --found-style-file command that simply outputs whether or not YAPF can find a .style.yapf or setup.cfg to apply. It would mean PyYapf would have to run yapf --found-style-file every time it runs, but this would presumably be fast and add negligible complexity.

Another solution would be if the PyYapf package explicitly supported per-project settings files. As far as I know, supporting project-specific settings is up to Package developers. Then I could add project-specific PyYapf.sublime-settings to my project (and .gitignore it) whenever I want PyYapf to defer to a .style.yapf.