When to use ruff format versus ruff --fix

[paulf81]

I've been using ruff and ruff format for cleaning up python code, thank you for the excellent tools! I had a question, I notice that running ruff format corrects some issues, while ruff --fix seems to address others. For example, sorting the imports seems to be done by ruff --fix but not ruff format. Is the correct usage to run both in succession?

[zanieb]

Hi! ruff --fix is an alias for ruff check --fix which is for the ruff linter. ruff format uses the ruff formatter. It may be helpful to read the linter / formatter documentation to understand the differences. For now, yeah you should run them both. In the future, we'll have a command that does both #8232

[paulf81]

This is very helpful, thank you!