[Django]-How to stop autopep8 not installed messages in Code

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You will receive this prompt if

  1. You have "formatOnSave" turned on as a setting
  2. You selected autopep8 as your formatter
  3. The Python extension can’t find autopep8

So the options are:

  1. Turn off formatting on save
  2. Make sure you successfully installed autopep8 into your environment or you specified the path to autopep8 in your settings

My guess is there’s an installation failure because you are using a globally installed interpreter and you’re not allowed to install where pip wants to put autopep8.

👤Brett Cannon

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windows 10:
on vscode terminal:

  1. pip install autopep8
  2. where autopep8
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  3. vscode -> Settings -> python -> Autopep8 Path: paste step2
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👤Jiao

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I have also encountered this problem in my computer with Ubuntu 18.04. It turns out that the python extension need some settings. My solution is:

  1. Go to Python extension’s extension setting.
  2. Find Python>Formatting:Autopep8 Path term
  3. Add the full path of the autopep8 that you have installed.
👤Chen Wang

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pip install pep8   
pip install --upgrade autopep8

or

"python.formatting.provider": "autopep8"
👤wazowski

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Adding this in for anyone who has this issue running WSL on Windows. You need to either need to be connected to Remote WSL in order to access pep8 in your WSL Python installation or install Python and pep8 on Windows since VS Code will be looking on Windows. No matter how magnificently installed autopep8 may be in WSL, VS Code won’t find it.

So my full solution was:

  1. If you don’t have Python installed in Windows, do that (dare I suggest you can even get it in the Microsoft Store!)
  2. Install autopep8 in your Windows Python instance. e.g., from Command Prompt: 
    python3 -m pip install autopep8
  3. Follow the instructions in any of the other responses if you’re still having issues.
👤Carter M

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The easiest way to work with autopep8 in VSCode to follow the steps:

  1. install autopep8 via pip install autopep8 into the desired virtual env
  2. Open VSCode and press ctrl + , which will open the settings
  3. Search for formatter
  4. Select Python-autopep8 in Editor: Default Formatter
  5. One can also tick the Editor: Format On Save if he/she wishes to
  6. Most importantly, open any .py file in that directory via VSCode and check at the bottom right of the of the VSCode window. Make sure that it is showing the venv name where the autopep8 has been installed and configured.
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👤EMT

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Install autopep from your terminal by running the following command

    python -m pip install autopep8

That should solve the error 2 in vscode of no such file or directory error

👤godwin ekeuma

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