Can't exclude specified file from auto formatting when using autopep8

[brettcannon]

Discussed in #17148

^{Originally posted by Iftakharpy August 28, 2021}
Can anyone help me to ignore the "settings.py" file in a Django project to be formatted on save? I have tried for 2 hours but couldn't get it to work. I am using Windows 10.

My vscode configurations:

{
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
  "[python]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.python",
    "editor.tabSize": 4,
    "editor.insertSpaces": true,
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--exclude=settings.py"]
}

I also tried:
- "python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--exclude settings.py"]
- "python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--exclude */settings.py"]
- "python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--exclude", "settings.py"]
- "python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--exclude", "*/settings.py"]

[Iftakharpy]

Can I get an idea of when this bug will be resolved?

[brettcannon]

Iftakhar Husan (@Iftakharpy) no idea. We have to reproduce it and then figure out what's going on. It's quite possible that it's an issue with how we execute autopep8, which would mean a complete rewrite of our formatting code would be required.

[kimadeline]

Hi Iftakhar Husan (@Iftakharpy),

This is not a bug with the extension, since running autopep8 in the terminal with the args combinations that you tried also fails.

You can use the following autopep8 args array with the extension to exclude your settings.py file:

"python.formatting.autopep8Args": [
        "--exclude=*settings.py",
    ],