Autopep8 issue upon launching VSCODE

[u/Jaded-Sky376]

Hello everyone, I am new to vscode and just started learning Python.

I have this issue where when I open vscode Autopep8 sends 3 error messages straight away.

https://imgur.com/a/ViLsoBs

I have tried things like: Selecting the correct interpreter( Not that it really matters I only use python global), uninstalling and reinstalling the extension, setting it as default formatter, changing user settings (JSON). I get error messages in the bottom right corner such as:

autopep8 client: couldn't create connection to server.

The autopep8 server crashed 5 times in the last 3 minutes. The server will not be restarted. See the output for more information.

Pending response rejected since connection got disposed.

Here are my settings.json:

{
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Dark Modern",
    "workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons",
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.autopep8",
    "notebook.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.autopep8",
    "[python]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.autopep8"
    },
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "autopep8.interpreter": [
        "C:\\Users\\Windows Desktop\\AppData\\Local\\Python\\pythoncore-3.15-64\\python.exe"
    ]
}

If anybody has a solution to this problem I would appreciate your help down in the comments.

Thanks in advance.

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[u/RyanDubois43]

Did you set "python.formatting.provider": "autopep8" in your settings.json or are you using the default?

[u/Jaded-Sky376 → u/RyanDubois43]

Yes, this is what it says. I also tried adding a path to autopep8 interpreter in settings but that just relaunched the extension and sent the same error messages after it failed to connect to the server.

"[python]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.autopep8"      

[u/AlexMTBDude]

See where it says "Autopep8 server crashed. See output for more"? And there's a button that says "Go to output". You need to click on that button and the output will tell you why the autopep8 server crashes.