VS Code Black Formatter

Intergrating Black formatter into your workflow

I love using software which can remove mundaine tasks from my workflow. I exculsively use VS Code for my programming. You can install the Official Microsoft Black formatter

This provides formatting for python and great addition is organization and cleanup of imports for each file. This can all be done using hot keys.

• Ctrl + Alt + I to format the document

If you add into your Prefrences JSON

  "[python]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.black-formatter",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  }

This will default python files to the black formatter. Every time you save it will automatically reformat the document. This was a game changer for me.

IF you want the organization of the imports as well then use the below:

 "[python]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.black-formatter",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
        "source.organizeImports": true
    }
  }

Source: Blog osull

This provides you update of the imports on every time you save the document.

Next upgrade for my productivity increase will have these done one a pre-commit task.