I feel Black is doing something not compliant (with my Organisation), so I am trying to ignore certain rules. Example below and a related link PEP 8: whitespace before ':' My Organisation (Coding Standards) does not give priority to what Black feels is right, but wants a way to customise black configurations. I dont see any mentioned of Ignoring a Rule in Black documentation https://github.com/psf/black#command-line-options. They have given examples to ignore Flake8 rules, but dont seem to have any documentation for their own product. Continue reading...