Code Formatting in Visual Studio Code — My Essential Python Snippet

A small piece of code to reuse every time you spin up a new Python project

Let’s get straight to the point.

In your VSCode project root folder, find the settings.json file. If you’re working within a virtual environment, this will automatically appear in your project.

Make sure you have the python.pythonPath argument set correctly first.

Now, install black and isort packages via pip:

pip install black isort

Finally, append this snippet to the json:

"python.formatting.provider": "black","editor.formatOnSave" : true,"python.formatting.blackArgs": ["--line-length=119"],"python.sortImports.args": ["--profile=black",],"[python]": {"editor.codeActionsOnSave": {"source.organizeImports": true}},

And that’s it! Now, you can simply go ahead and continue working normally, when you save a python file, black will auto restructure your file.

Cool, isn’t it? 😎

In case you want to just run formatting over all the files in a big project folder, just run:

black folder_name/

and it will find all .py files within the folder recursively and format them!

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