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).
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" = ["--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. When set to `[]`, the interpreter for the workspace is obtained from `ms-python.python` extension. If set to some path, that path takes precedence, and the Python extension is not queried for the interpreter.
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.