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
pythonlanguage (i.e., python >= 3.7). - Minimum supported version of
flake8is5.0.0.
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" = ["--config=<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. |