I am a fresh python programmer. I started using VS Code because of its built-in terminal. (Before that I was using IDLE as an editor.)
My problem is, when I writing the code below in IDLE, all I need to do is to press enter to indent the new line to align with the previous variable.
someFunction(longVariable,
longString,
longWhatever)
In VS Code, it does this when I press enter:
someFunction(longVariable,
longString,
longWhatever)
Funny thing is when I align the "longString" by myself, It goes to the exact point where I want it to be as I press enter after comma. Like this:
someFunction(longVariable,
longString,
longWhatever)
How can I make it behave like IDLE? I use it a lot.
In addition to installing the ms-python extension that @TheDude suggested, I had to install a formatter. The options are autopep8, YAPF, and Black. Here are the install commands (you only need one of them, I chose YAPF because I was getting weird results with autopep8):
pip install yapf
pip install autopep8
pip install black
Now, I could not get it working that it would auto-format when I return a line. There is a User Setting parameter called editor.formatOnType which I thought would take care of this, but it seems to have no effect. BUT, there is also a User Setting parameter called editor.formatOnSave that auto-formats your file every time you save it. If you change this in your user settings "editor.formatOnSave": true then every time you save your file, it gets auto-formatted.
You can also use the auto-formatting hotkeys and it will have the same effect: