Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development (on Linux)

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Update January 2024:

I don’t use many of the separate tools for linting/refactoring/formatting anymore in favour of Ruff.

Configuration for Ruff has moved is done in my pyproject.toml template

I’m still using AutoDocString to ease docstring creation and MyPy for type checking.

Introduction

The following is a brief guide to reinstalling/setting up Visual Studio Code (VSC) on a new Linux system. The main use is Python development. As such, it is very brief and mostly for my own documentation.

Using MicroPython (PyBoard V1.1) with Visual Studio Code

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Warning

This still isn’t working as I think it should. Especially the linting and autocomplete still doesn’t work (leaving only the PyMakr module which works partly, in fact). For example: import pyb still does not add autocompletion when typing something like s = pyb.<CTRL + SPACE>. Most likely this is because I used a combinations of tools that shouldn’t be used together. Need to spend more time on this…

Intro

I’ve recently started using a PyBoard for a project that I am working on. Writing code in an IDE, saving the files, then manually copying them to the board to test them gets tedious rather quickly. If you’re using Visual Studio Code, there are options to do almost everything from within the IDE itself. Getting things to work as they should took a bit of effort and head scratching. What I needed to do is documented below.
Links to the sources of my information is at the bottom.

Visual Studio Code on Dieter Vansteenwegen / Boxfish

Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development (on Linux)

Introduction

Using MicroPython (PyBoard V1.1) with Visual Studio Code

Warning

Intro