I\'m using the May 2018 Python extension (released June 2018) for VS Code 1.23.1 on Windows, python 3.6 via Anaconda, conda installing black from conda-forge into my conda e
Well, I was fighting with new VSCode settings myself. I tried all things suggested in the other answers with many variations, and result was nil.
Then, I've reached enlightenment. Here you are for version 1.38.1 and further. Note there are no quotation marks.
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