Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

Setting sortImports.args produces Invalid patch string

See original GitHub issue

Issue Type: Bug

I recently set the following option to improve the compatibility of isort with black:

"python.sortImports.args": [
    "--profile", "black"
]

However, the following error occurs when activating it:

Invalid patch string: >>>PYTHON-EXEC-OUTPUT

This does not happen if this option is not set. Maybe there is a problem with escaping the parameters?

Extension version: 2022.4.0 VS Code version: Code 1.66.0 (e18005f0f1b33c29e81d732535d8c0e47cafb0b5, 2022-03-30T05:50:04.419Z) OS version: Darwin x64 19.6.0 Restricted Mode: No

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz (4 x 3100)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled metal: disabled_off multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: enabled opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	5, 7, 8
Memory (System)	16.00GB (0.34GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Reactions:3
Comments:12 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

karthiknadigcommented, May 10, 2022

For anyone running into this issue, please try https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.isort . It might handle these cases better, and we plan on eventually switching to that extension.

2reactions

karrtikrcommented, Nov 9, 2022

We’ve a new isort extension which solves this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.isort

Top Results From Across the Web

How to configure line length for VS Code python Sort Imports ...

From the documentation, it seems like "python.sortImports.args": ["-l", "100"] should work, but it's giving me an error: Invalid patch string ...

Settings Reference for Python - Visual Studio Code

Settings Reference for the Python extension in Visual Studio Code. ... Diagnostics for invalid escape sequences used within string literals.

Pylint features - Pylint 2.16.0-dev documentation

TypeVar cannot be both covariant and contravariant Emitted when both the "covariant" and "contravariant" keyword arguments are set to "True" in a TypeVar....

Changelog — documentación de Python - 3.6.15

bpo-35643: Fixed a SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence in Modules/_sha3/cleanup.py. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen. bpo-35121: Don't set cookie for a request ...

Configuration options for isort

Tells isort to set the known standard library based on the specified ... Python & Config File Name: py_version ... Sort imports by...