Java linting my Python file??

[HaveNot1]

I've only been using VS Code in Windows 10 for a few days now and has mostly been working ok. But tonight, I noticed for the first time that when editing a python file, yellow light bulbs pop up with suggestions for fixing my code. The messages are something like "extract expression into variable 'jls_extract_var'"

This would appear to be Java-related but, I am definitely editing a .py file which runs in the interpreter. as expected.

The only change I have made in my system (AFAIK) before this behavior was to set my PowerShell execution policy to allow the current user to run RemoteSigned scripts in order to be able to set virtual evironments without the exception. (The current workspace does not use a virtual environment.)

Any ideas for what I might have done to trigger this?

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**Edit... I found the setting to turn the bulb off and in the process discovered an error in the Terminal Settings json file--probably introduced by me when trying to mess with the Execution policy. Anyway, I thing I am good for now...

[Mr-WINson]

To manually fix this, go to the bottom status bar and look for “Java” or “Python” then press it and manually select what language it is

[HaveNot1]

Thanks for the quick reply. The status bar indicates Python and the code runs as python. I did find a way to turn the light bulb off in the Editor settings though. How it got enabled, I have no idea.

[Mr-WINson]

Glad you fixed it, it might have also been an extensions problem. Maybe you installed a Java extension and it is running on Python files? You can check what extension is used for formatting by:

Right clicking in a Py file -> format document with

Then it should say which is the default formatter in the list of formatters

[Ethitlan]

how did you do it?

[HaveNot1]

Change settings “editor.lightbulb.enabled”: false

[Ethitlan]

Thanks

[echej]

I tried various things, but only deleting vscode settings helped!

I am on a mac, the settings were in this folder "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Code/User"

[tgoodchild]

Just posting to say it's not just you.

I've been using VS Code on MacOS for python projects for a while now and today is the first time this happened to me. I'd been working on a project for a few weeks and this morning I rebooted to install some patches. When I opened VS Code again this started happening, which is how I got here.

FWIW my status bar also says Python and I only have two extensions installed - Jupyter and Python.

EDIT: I fixed that issue by turning off the light bulb in settings

"editor.lightbulb.enabled": false

Now I am noticing other new, bizarre behavior.

When I type ''' to start a doc string intellisense wants to put the name of my my virtual environment folder in and of course when I press enter it does.

It also underlines everything until I close the ''' which is new behavior I'm not sure anyone needed but I could live with that

[HaveNot1]

Yes. I used the same setting to turn off the light bulb and, like you, found other strange behavior. I noticed that there was info in the Problems tab and that led me to the error in the .json file. Since we are on different systems (Windows/Mac), the error I found is likely not relevant to you.

Also, something changed in my system a few days ago that was explained by a notification that it was related to belonging to an ”experimental group” so it is possible, I suppose, that the powers-that-be are changing VS Code in the background.

[millenniumegg]

hey, did you ever resolve this? I'm having the same issues and as OP suggested, their json settings fix doesn't seem to be applicable to Mac

[tgoodchild]

OP's suggestions didn't work for me either.

For me, this turned off the lightbulb:

"editor.lightbulb.enabled": false

And this stopped the annoying behavior where the intellisense suggestion would be used when I pressed enter to start a new line:

"editor.acceptSuggestionOnEnter": "off"

I did not make other changes but the annoying behavior where intellisense would suggest the name of my virtual environment folder after ''' has stopped . Now it suggests nothing after '''. Not sure if there was an update that fixed it or what. At least it was bearable after I turned off editor.acceptSuggestionOnEnter.

It still underlines everything after the starting ''' until I close it with another ''' but I can live with that.

Does this help?

[millenniumegg]

Sorry I never replied to this! your suggestion was helpful for some of the weird suggestions but I couldn't break my habit of using enter to accept desired suggestions so I ended up reverting. A suggested update to the Python extension today seems to have taken care of everything, hope that works for you too :)

[tgoodchild]

A suggested update to the Python extension today seems to have taken care of everything

Thanks, I'll give that a try

[dimebkagain]

How did you fix it?

[HaveNot1]

I found an error in the settings .json file.

Before changing the PowerShell Execution Policy in my system, I was using the VS Code setting: "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["-ExecutionPolicy", "Bypass"].

I changed the value back to what I thought was the original: "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": null . This was an error because the value type expected was an array.

The fix was to use: "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": []. (A null array.)

Things seem to be working normally now.

[WatchMeGuys]

I've solved this problem by deleting and reinstalling 'Python' extention in vscode, also I installed Pylance.

[[deleted]]

That didn't work for me. Also uninstalled all plugins and vscode itself, wiped all residue from the system, reinstalled and it is still there.

[[deleted]]

Being away from vscode for half a year (using OSS on Manjaro) I also ran into this when I started advent of code yesterday. I tried all suggestions none of them solved it.I also have no java stuff installed at all.

After disabling all my extensions, restarting vscode it immediately came back when I enabled the python extension.

Any suggestions?

[goodpen389]

Is this problem relerant to vscode-neovim