Flake8 extension for Visual Studio Code

A Visual Studio Code extension with support for the flake8 linter. The extension ships with flake8=5.0.4.

Note:

This extension is supported for all actively supported versions of the python language (i.e., python >= 3.7).
The bundled flake8 is only used if there is no installed version of flake8 found in the selected python environment.
Minimum supported version of flake8 is 5.0.0.

Usage

Once installed in Visual Studio Code, flake8 will be automatically executed when you open a Python file.

If you want to disable flake8, you can disable this extension per workspace in Visual Studio Code.

Settings	Default	Description
flake8.args	`[]`	Custom arguments passed to `flake8`. E.g `"flake8.args" = ["--rcfile=<file>"]`
flake8.severity	`{ "convention": "Information", "error": "Error", "fatal": "Error", "refactor": "Hint", "warning": "Warning", "info": "Information" }`	Controls mapping of severity from `flake8` to VS Code severity when displaying in the problems window. You can override specific `flake8` error codes `{ "convention": "Information", "error": "Error", "fatal": "Error", "refactor": "Hint", "warning": "Warning", "W0611": "Error", "undefined-variable": "Warning" }`
flake8.logLevel	`error`	Sets the tracing level for the extension.
flake8.path	`[]`	Setting to provide custom `flake8` executable. This will slow down linting, since we will have to run `flake8` executable every time or file save or open. Example 1: `["~/global_env/flake8"]` Example 2: `["conda", "run", "-n", "lint_env", "python", "-m", "flake8"]`
flake8.interpreter	`[]`	Path to a python interpreter to use to run the linter server.
flake8.importStrategy	`useBundled`	Setting to choose where to load `flake8` from. `useBundled` picks flake8 bundled with the extension. `fromEnvironment` uses `flake8` available in the environment.
flake8.showNotification	`off`	Setting to control when a notification is shown.

Command	Description
Flake8: Restart Server	Force re-start the linter server.