vscode: wrong indentation detection for python

Issue Type: Bug

open a file including these line:

def foo(bars):
    for bar in bars:
        pass

vs code will detect the indentation as Spaces: 8, where the correct indentation setting should be 4 spaces.

VS Code version: Code 1.28.2 (7f3ce96ff4729c91352ae6def877e59c561f4850, 2018-10-17T00:20:56.183Z) OS version: Linux x64 4.15.0-38-lowlatency

Extensions (13)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
code-gnu-global	aus	0.2.2
thrift	cdu	0.0.1
vscode-markdownlint	Dav	0.21.0
code-runner	for	0.9.5
latex-workshop	Jam	5.13.0
racket	kar	0.0.3
vscode-clang	mit	0.2.3
anaconda-extension-pack	ms-	1.0.1
python	ms-	2018.9.2
cpptools	ms-	0.20.1
vscode-yaml	red	0.0.17
cmake	twx	0.0.17
clang-format	xav	1.6.2

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 6
Comments: 15 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

This does not trigger the bug, it is detected as 4 spaces:

class Foo:
    def bar(self):
        pass

This does trigger the bug and is detected as 8 spaces:

def foo():
    for i in range(3):
        print(i)

All extensions are disabled.

It is the parenthesis on the first line that makes the difference! If I remove the () from the “def foo():” then without changing anything else it would correctly detect it as 4 spaces!

prof7bit on Apr 4, 2019

Close in favor of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/62143, which is fixed in master already.

rebornix on Aug 5, 2019

please fix this problem, it’s really annoying… 😦

JackLiar on Apr 30, 2019