Using Flake8 in VSCode...?

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55thSwiss picture 55thSwiss · Jan 12, 2019 · Viewed 22.8k times · Source

My VSCode is using a locally installed anaconda environment, at the default directory, which places it in Program Files. Because of this I'm unable to install flake8 through VSCode, I get a permission error. If I update my conda environment at the local level to install flake8, does anyone know if VSCode recognize and be able to use the package then?

Answer

Yedhin picture Yedhin · Jan 12, 2019

Usually yeah it will. But if it doesn't work for you, then you can try specifying absolute path to flake8 and enable it explicitly like so : 

"python.linting.flake8Enabled": true,  
"python.linting.flake8Path": "path/to/flake8",

you can even specify path to your conda environment : 

"python.condaPath": "path/to/condaenv/",

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