Minimal VSCode settings and extensions configuration for Python with ruff

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 16:53:00 +0200

This morning while working on my AoC submission, I wondered what the simplest procedure was for sharing a minimal setup for editing Python in Visual Studio Code using ruff for formatting, linting and import sorting, and doing all of that automatically on save.

It turns out that you can just store the following extensions.json and settings.json in the .vscode sub-directory of your source directory, and all of the above will be done. As a bonus, you can use the ruff.toml example below to customise your ruff setup.

Set severity override of Visual Studio Code Pylance type mismatches for better visual distinction

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 22:57:00 +0200

Pylance is Microsoft’s new and improved Python language server.

I have been using this in my Visual Studio Code remote editing sessions (editing Python codes on the machine learning Linux machine next to me, from my laptop), and I’m enjoying its new type-checking capabilities.

Today I discovered a little configuration change that improved my Pylance experience, so I thought I’d share in case it helps anyone else.

Aside: ox-hugo exports with org-download screenshots

It was also an excuse to test how ox-hugo exports would work for a note straight from my daily journal if screenshots were involved.

Pylance on vxlabs

Minimal VSCode settings and extensions configuration for Python with ruff

Set severity override of Visual Studio Code Pylance type mismatches for better visual distinction

Aside: ox-hugo exports with org-download screenshots