Snakefmt
This repository provides formatting for Snakemake files. It follows the design and specifications of Black.
⚠️ WARNING⚠️ :snakefmt
modifies files in-place by default, thus we strongly recommend ensuring your files are under version control before doing any formatting. You can also pipe the file in from stdin, which will print it to the screen, or use the--diff
or--check
options. See Usage for more details.
Table of Contents
Install
PyPi
pip install snakefmt
Conda
conda install -c bioconda snakefmt
Containers
As snakefmt
has a Conda recipe, there is a matching image built for each version by
Biocontainers.
In the following examples, all tags (<tag>
) can be found
here.
Docker
$ docker run -it "quay.io/biocontainers/snakefmt:<tag>" snakefmt --help
Singularity
$ singularity exec "docker://quay.io/biocontainers/snakefmt:<tag>" snakefmt --help
Local
These instructions include installing poetry
.
# install poetry
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python3
git clone https://github.com/snakemake/snakefmt && cd snakefmt
# install snakefmt in a new environment
poetry install
# activate the environment so snakefmt is available on your PATH
poetry shell
Example File
Input
from snakemake.utils import min_version
min_version("5.14.0")
configfile: "config.yaml" # snakemake keywords are treated like classes i.e. 2 newlines
SAMPLES = ['s1', 's2'] # strings are normalised
CONDITIONS = ["a", "b", "longlonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglong"] # long lines are wrapped
include: "rules/foo.smk" # 2 newlines
rule all:
input: "data/results.txt" # newlines after keywords enforced and trailing comma
rule gets_separated_by_two_newlines:
input:
files = expand("long/string/to/data/files/gets_broken_by_black/{sample}.{condition}",sample=SAMPLES, condition=CONDITIONS)
if True:
rule can_be_inside_python_code:
input: "parameters", "get_indented"
threads: 4 # Numeric params stay unindented
params: key_val = "PEP8_formatted"
run:
print("weirdly_spaced_string_gets_respaced")
Output
from snakemake.utils import min_version
min_version("5.14.0")
configfile: "config.yaml" # snakemake keywords are treated like classes i.e. 2 newlines
SAMPLES = ["s1", "s2"] # strings are normalised
CONDITIONS = [
"a",
"b",
"longlonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglong",
] # long lines are wrapped
include: "rules/foo.smk" # 2 newlines
rule all:
input:
"data/results.txt", # newlines after keywords enforced and trailing comma
rule gets_separated_by_two_newlines:
input:
files=expand(
"long/string/to/data/files/gets_broken_by_black/{sample}.{condition}",
sample=SAMPLES,
condition=CONDITIONS,
),
if True:
rule can_be_inside_python_code:
input:
"parameters",
"get_indented",
threads: 4 # Numeric params stay unindented
params:
key_val="PEP8_formatted",
run:
print("weirdly_spaced_string_gets_respaced")
Usage
Basic Usage
Format a single Snakefile.
snakefmt Snakefile
Format all Snakefiles within a directory.
snakefmt workflows/
Format a file but write the output to stdout.
snakefmt - < Snakefile
Full Usage
$ snakefmt --help
Usage: snakefmt [OPTIONS] [SRC]...
The uncompromising Snakemake code formatter.
SRC specifies directories and files to format. Directories will be
searched for file names that conform to the include/exclude patterns
provided.
Files are modified in-place by default; use diff, check, or `snakefmt - <
Snakefile` to avoid this.
Options:
-l, --line-length INT Lines longer than INT will be wrapped. [default: 88]
--check Don't write the files back, just return the status.
Return code 0 means nothing would change. Return code
1 means some files would be reformatted. Return code
123 means there was an error.
-d, --diff Don't write the files back, just output a diff for
each file to stdout.
--compact-diff Same as --diff but only shows lines that would change
plus a few lines of context.
--include PATTERN A regular expression that matches files and
directories that should be included on recursive
searches. An empty value means all files are
included regardless of the name. Use forward slashes
for directories on all platforms (Windows, too).
Exclusions are calculated first, inclusions later.
[default: (\.smk$|^Snakefile)]
--exclude PATTERN A regular expression that matches files and
directories that should be excluded on recursive
searches. An empty value means no paths are
excluded. Use forward slashes for directories on all
platforms (Windows, too). Exclusions are calculated
first, inclusions later. [default: (\.snakemake|\.eg
gs|\.git|\.hg|\.mypy_cache|\.nox|\.tox|\.venv|\.svn|_
build|buck-out|build|dist)]
-c, --config PATH Read configuration from PATH. By default, will try to
read from `./pyproject.toml`
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
-V, --version Show the version and exit.
-v, --verbose Turns on debug-level logging.
Configuration
snakefmt
is able to read project-specific default values for its command line options
from a pyproject.toml
file. In addition, it will also load any black
configurations you have in the same file.
By default, snakefmt
will search in the parent directories of the formatted file(s)
for a file called pyproject.toml
and use any configuration there.
If your configuration file is located somewhere else or called something different,
specify it using --config
.
Any options you pass on the command line will take precedence over default values in the configuration file.
Example
pyproject.toml
[tool.snakefmt]
line_length = 90
include = '\.smk$|^Snakefile|\.py$'
# snakefmt passes these options on to black
[tool.black]
skip_string_normalization = true
In this example we increase the --line-length
value and also include python (*.py
)
files for formatting - this effectively runs black
on them. snakefmt
will also pass
on the [tool.black]
settings, internally, to black
.
Integration
Editor Integration
For instructions on how to integrate snakefmt
into your editor of choice, refer to
docs/editor_integration.md
Version Control Integration
snakefmt
supports pre-commit, a framework for managing git pre-commit hooks. Using this framework you can run snakefmt
whenever you commit a Snakefile
or *.smk
file. Pre-commit
automatically creates an isolated virtual environment with snakefmt
and will stop the commit if snakefmt
would modify the file. You then review, stage, and re-commit these changes. Pre-commit is especially useful if you don't have access to a CI/CD system like GitHub actions.
To do so, create the file .pre-commit-config.yaml
in the root of your project directory with the following:
repos:
- repo: https://github.com/snakemake/snakefmt
rev: 0.5.0 # Replace by any tag/version ≥0.2.4 : https://github.com/snakemake/snakefmt/releases
hooks:
- id: snakefmt
Then install pre-commit and initialize the pre-commit hooks by running pre-commit install
(Note you need to run this step once per clone of your repository). Additional pre-commit hooks can be found here.
GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions in combination with super-linter allows you to automatically run snakefmt
on all Snakefiles in your repository e.g. whenever you push a new commit.
To do so, create the file .github/workflows/linter.yml
in your repository:
---
name: Lint Code Base
on:
push:
pull_request:
branches: [master]
jobs:
build:
name: Lint Code Base
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout Code
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Lint Code Base
uses: github/super-linter@v3
env:
VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE: false
DEFAULT_BRANCH: master
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
VALIDATE_SNAKEMAKE_SNAKEFMT: true
Additional configuration parameters can be specified by creating .github/linters/.snakefmt.toml
:
[tool.black]
skip_string_normalization = true
For more information check the super-linter
readme.
Plug Us
If you can't get enough of badges, then feel free to show others you're using snakefmt
in your project.
Markdown
[![Code style: snakefmt](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-snakefmt-000000.svg)](https://github.com/snakemake/snakefmt)
ReStructuredText
.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-snakefmt-000000.svg
:target: https://github.com/snakemake/snakefmt
Changes
See CHANGELOG.md
.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Cite
@article{snakemake2021,
doi = {10.12688/f1000research.29032.2},
url = {https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.29032.2},
year = {2021},
month = apr,
publisher = {F1000 Research Ltd},
volume = {10},
pages = {33},
author = {Felix M\"{o}lder and Kim Philipp Jablonski and Brice Letcher and Michael B. Hall and Christopher H. Tomkins-Tinch and Vanessa Sochat and Jan Forster and Soohyun Lee and Sven O. Twardziok and Alexander Kanitz and Andreas Wilm and Manuel Holtgrewe and Sven Rahmann and Sven Nahnsen and Johannes K\"{o}ster},
title = {Sustainable data analysis with Snakemake},
journal = {F1000Research}
}