Wrong order in import when using sort imports in vscode

Sorting using the Python Refactor: Sort Imports doesn’t generate a correct output. When I run the same command in the console the output is correct.

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.49.0
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): v2020.9.112786
• OS and version: Ubuntu 18.04
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): Python 3.6
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): virtualenv
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Pylance

Expected behaviour

When I sort in the console:

~/Development/virtual_env/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.9.112786/pythonFiles/pyvsc-run-isolated.py ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.9.112786/pythonFiles/sortImports.py src/accounting/lms/utils/xero/book_gt_bank.py

I get:

from datetime import date, datetime
from typing import List

import pytz
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils import timezone

from accounting.lms.utils.xero.base import xero_execute_booking
from transaction.models import Transaction

Actual behaviour

When I sort using the vscode command Python Refactor: Sort Imports the I get:

from datetime import date, datetime
from typing import List

import pytz
from accounting.lms.utils.xero.base import xero_execute_booking
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils import timezone
from transaction.models import Transaction

Steps to reproduce:

Just try to sort imports as I explained above and it should happen.

Logs

Here are the logs from vscode

> ~/Development/virtual_env/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.9.112786/pythonFiles/pyvsc-run-isolated.py ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.9.112786/pythonFiles/sortImports.py - --diff
cwd: ~/Development/backend/src/accounting/lms/utils/xero
> ~/Development/virtual_env/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.9.112786/pythonFiles/pyvsc-run-isolated.py ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.9.112786/pythonFiles/sortImports.py - --diff
cwd: ~/Development/backend/src/accounting/lms/utils/xero

[mariadb-JeffBachtel]

I ran into this and tracked it down a bit. The problem seems to be at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/blob/648952899d5f067f2156e9ce8b8a003e5bc26c7e/src/client/providers/importSortProvider.ts#L177 where the cwd is set to the directory the Python source file lives in, vice say ${workspaceFolder}

For me, a solution was setting as follows

However a patch to importSortProvider.ts to default cwd to workspaceFolder might work better (but I don’t know other gotchas)

[alexanderdevm]

As @juliussimonelli suggests:

"python.sortImports.args": [
        "--src=${workspaceFolder}"
    ]

by adding the following to vscode setting.json resolved the issue, at least for me.