[Fuzzwah]

I've got a python project where I've been pretty naughty with long lines containing sql queries.

I found that running this tool over it resulted in some strange new lines.

For example, this was my old hideously long line:

query_qual = "INSERT OR REPLACE INTO Qualifying (poleid, seasonid, race_week_num, carclassid, pole) values (%s%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)" % (race[u'seasonid'], race[u'race_week_num'], race[u'seasonid'], race[u'race_week_num'], race[u'carclassid'], pole)

Changed to this:

query_qual = "INSERT OR REPLACE INTO Qualifying (poleid, seasonid, race_week_num, carclassid, pole) values (%s%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)" % ( race[u'seasonid'], race[u'race_week_num'], race[ u'seasonid' ], race[u'race_week_num'], race[u'carclassid'], pole)

[hyperpallium]

To my eye, HN has rendered them identically. You can preserve literal whitespace on HN by indenting by two spaces (and a newline to separate the code formatting from ordinary text).

  it appears     like  this

[spott]

newlines need to be escaped somehow (two newlines seems to do it), otherwise they are combined into the same line:

Every word in this sentence was entered on a different line.

[Pirate-of-SV]

You could try set the line length penalty so something really high. That would probably sort things out.

[eliben]

Feel free to submit a Github issue for yapf