Allow statements before imports with Visual Studio Code and autopep8
Open settings
Search for autopep8. You should see the following results:
Click on "Edit in settings.json" under the first option
Add the following argument to the User Settings JSON file:
"python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--ignore", "E402"]
This tells autopep8
to ignore error 402 which is: "module level import not at top of file" (here's the list of errors in pep8)
You can use this same method to change any of the autopep8
settings. For example, if you only wanted to fix indentation, you can use "python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--select", "E1"]
The autopep8 readme has more information on the available options.
If you don't want to generally disable import sorting, but just disable it for specific lines, you can use the following pragmas at the end of each line:
# noqa
or
# nopep8
Like so for your example:
import sys # noqa
sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/packages') # noqa
import localpackage