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

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.

Commands

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