In PyCharm, is it possible to do "the Reformat Code" every time I save a file?

Question

I would like to automatically reformat the code in a file whenever I save it. Is it possible to do it in PyCharm? So far, this is the only feature from Eclipse I cannot find in PyCharm.

If it is possible, can you please point me to the setting. I have gone through the preferences and looked around the Internet but am unable to find this setting (if it exists).

P.S. PyCharm devs: if this does not exist, it is at the top of my PyCharm wish list.

Probably not, but you can try a trick from Idea: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5581992/313516 (PyCharm and IntelliJ Idea have a common codebase). — Marcin Zajączkowski, Jan 14 '14 at 00:41
Does this answer your question? [Intellij reformat on file save](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/946993/intellij-reformat-on-file-save) — Oliver Sieweke, Mar 21 '20 at 19:31
Does this answer your question? [Save actions in IntelliJ IDEA](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3707316/save-actions-in-intellij-idea) — Jossef Harush Kadouri, Aug 09 '21 at 08:16

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '14 at 03:09

JetBrains team is working on ability to have on-save-actions. You'll be able to record a macro of what actions need to happen when you hit Ctrl/Command+S. Not sure when this will be released though.

More information at http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-6722

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 14 '14 at 07:50

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There's a plugin for that attached to http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-5806 The comments to the issue also explain why it hasn't been implemented as a core product feature.

answered Jan 14 '14 at 07:50

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 17 '21 at 05:03

Jetbrains have implemented Actions on save in PyCharm.

Actions on Save page has been added to Settings (Preferences) in 2021.2. At the moment it contains the following options:

Reformat code (if VCS is used it has a choice Whole file <-> Changed lines)
Optimize imports
Rearrange code
Code cleanup (applies fixes from the code cleanup inspections)

Also, there's a bunch of 'actions on save' that have already been available in the previous IDE versions and could be configured on their own technology-specific pages in Settings. It's now possible to enable/disable these features right on the Actions on Save page without jumping to technology-specific page. Note, that all these options remain available on the technology-specific page and UI is in sync with Actions on Save page.

Run eslint --fix (provided by the JavaScript plugin)
Run Prettier (provided by the Prettier plugin)
Build project (only in the IDEs that support Java)
Run File Watchers (provided by the File Watchers plugin)
Upload to default server (provided by the FTP/SFTP Connectivity plugin)

For details check this link: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-100701#focus=Comments-27-4985850.0-0

In PyCharm, is it possible to do "the Reformat Code" every time I save a file?

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