Using Python autoformatter Autopep8 for Python 2.7

[dudiavraham3]

following the issue: #6495

I want to enable VS Code auto formatter on python files on Python 2.7 .( i know that it is out of date but i don't have a choice currently because of my teams product)

environment :
windows 10 (also tried on linux)
python version: 2.7.13
autopep8 1.4.4
pycodestyle: 2.5.0

tried autopep8 extension version: v2022.2.0

the below is working:
c:\Python27\python.exe c:\python27\lib\site-packages\autopep8.py --in-place "C:\source code\Learning\Python\test_python_2.7\test.py"

but formatting with autopep8 via VS code is not working and i tried almost every configuration under workspace settings.json file

according to the discussion #6495,
it seems that the user used extension 2019.6.22090 which is no longer supported. maybe the extention version is the root cause for the issue.

what are my options to auto format python files on python 2.7.13 with VS code ?

[brettcannon]

It looks like https://pypi.org/project/autopep8/1.7.0/ was the last release to support Python 2.7.

There are three options:

1. Switch to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.autopep8 and specify the path to an installation of autopep8 (i.e., install autopep8 somewhere using Python 2.7 and then set the autopep8.path setting); this still requires Python 3 to be installed to run the language server for the extension.
2. Create your own extension using https://code.visualstudio.com/api/advanced-topics/python-extension-template ; you will have to make the code Python 2.7 compatible which may take some work if you can't get Python 3 installed to run the extension (typically it takes an afternoon to create an extension, but the code is Python 3-only).
3. Set up a task that you run to format your code; if you can set up something to watch your code to automatically run it may make it the easiest since you can "set and forget" the process to do the formatting automatically and VS Code will notice the file changed on disk.

[dudiavraham3]

Hi
thank you for your response.
i tried solution (1)
the interpreter is set to Python 2.7 and the autopep8.path is set to autopep8 on the python 2 installation but it is not working.
what am i missing? what do you mean by python 3 to run the language server? where do i set it?

[brettcannon]

You have some conflicting settings in there (i.e., all of the python.formatting settings). Try removing those. If it still doesn't work then please open an issue in the autopep8 extension's issue tracker.