formatter and symbolic link about black HOT 4 CLOSED

I swear that I used the latest Black formatter at that time. The issue was gone after I updated the extension in VSCode today. Thank you for your time.

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Could you clarify what exactly is a symbolic link to what?

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My bad. I have the following symbolic link:

(a) /home/xyz/unit_test/conftest.py
->
(b) /home/xyz/cpp/prws/unit_test/conftest.py

More precisely, I created a symbolic link for the folder unit_test/ and added it to my workspace in VSCode. I edited (a) and Black formtter complained that "No Python files are present to be formatted. Nothing to do" like above.

If I ran Black against (b) directly, i.e. the original path, it worked without issue.

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Hm, I can't reproduce. Is it possible your VSCode is using a version of Black older than 24.2? Aka what is /home/xyz/.local/python/bin/python -m black --version

Maybe you could provide an exact sequence of commands you ran to set up your symlink? You can see the exact command that VSCode is running (it passes the buffer as stdin to that command and uses --stdin-filename), it might be useful to check if you can repro with that directly yourself.

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