Question: autopep8 (pycodestyle) formatter not respecting configuration file

Using:

$ autopep8 --version
autopep8 1.4.4 (pycodestyle: 2.5.0)

I have a .flake8 (also tried setup.cfg) with a section like so:

[flake8]
exclude=path/to/some/file

I’ve also tried with [pep8] or [pycodestyle] as per https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8

The Python VS Code extension does not work with any of these, as the formatter anyway formats the files. I have not set any of the python.formatting. options so it should default to using autopep8.

Why is this?

[ericsnowcurrently]

Sounds good. Feel free to open that enhancement request for the extension, but I’d give it a low chance of actually happening. Still, even a closed issue is a signal of interest that others might share. 😃

[thernstig]

@ericsnowcurrently Thank you, I think we can close this then. Since the option to set --global-config already exists for the Python extension (via "python.formatting.autopep8Args": [...) then I think that might be enough. If you yourself believe the the Python extension automatically should look in the root for any of the mentioned files, let me know and I will open an ehchancement request.

I will try to open an issue on autopep8 to see if they can implement this as well.