# Formatting or Format?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formatting-or-format/9477>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** formatting\
**Created:** [March 3, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formatting-or-format/9477 "2018-03-03T17:58:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formatting-or-format/9477/15 "2018-04-10T11:25:39Z")

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`Format.jl` isn’t totally compatible with `Formatting.jl`, the biggest difference is that I incorporated the PR that Tom Breloff (great guy that he is, of Plots.jl fame) had done, and renamed some of the functions as I saw fit (i.e. fmt → pyfmt), to make it clearer the differences between the Python style formatting code (pyfmt), the C style formatting code (cfmt), and the type driven formatting that Tom’s PR added (fmt).  
If those changes were considered acceptable to the rest of the people using `Formatting`, they could be combined.

I would love to join JuliaIO though, I use many of it’s repos, and have at least a little 😉 experience in that area.

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