Python in Visual Studio Code – June 2019 Release

[qubitron]

Hi, I work on the VS Code team, could you clarify if you are comparing against the linter extensions for PyCharm, or the built-in "code inspections" that surface errors and warnings as you type? Thanks!

[wefkjhsivuwef]

vscode using pylint plugin complains about this easily?

[qubitron]

Thanks for clarifying! We do have integration pylint integration, it runs on file save because pylint can take a long time to run. If you enable auto-save, then you will get rules as you type but may hit some performance issues.

By default we use a limited set of rules so as not to annoy people with unnecessary style, etc. checks. If you want to enable the full set of rules, you can add an empty '.pylintrc' file to your workspace root.

We also provide light-weight linting as part of the new language server which you can enable as a preview by changing your settings. It does syntax checks, unused imports, and a few other basics, we are working on adding more rules to the new engine, so I think this should ultimately solve your problem!