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florianfesti
Question: interested in code formatting?
Before I start making any changes I was wondering if you'd be interested in a reformatted version of boxes.py, using something like the pycodestyle linter. No change in functionality, just an update to use f-strings and some more consistent formatting. Also, a bunch of files currently don't have a file extension (especially in the scripts folder). While this is valid on Linux, it is kind of odd and it would be nice to add them.
Although the project is Python 3 nowadays most of the code base very much is still Python 2. Also a lot of pieces were done rather quickly. So reformatting and converting to a more modern style is welcome. This should obviously be done in separate commits that don't do functional changes. File extensions are a bit of a different topic. They are frowned upon for executables on Unix systems. So I'like to keep the executable names there. But I am open to install them with extension on Windows or may be even rename them but add symlinks on Unix.
Do you have any references for this last comment, on file extensions being frowned upon? I've never seen this in any other project (been running Linux for years).
OK; may be frowned upon is a bit too harsh. A look into /usr/bin shows there actually are a few executables that use file extensions. But most don't - even when only looking at scripts. Guess this has become more acceptable in recent years - with Python being the worst offender. I generally think a file extension leaks an implementation detail into the (CLI) interface. Which is something to be avoided.
Otoh as the name of the project is Boxes.py I should probably reconsider my POV...