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What makes me crazy about my developer setup in vscode right now is that it is complaining about unused imports (even auto removing them before I turned that off) when writing an import statement. However if I try to avoid that by referencing that module before import it is (naturally) complaining about unknown module referenced.

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I was really shocked at vscodes default behavior of adding import statements to my code without asking and have strayed away from any kind of automation since

VS Code does not just add imports to your code. I switched away from VSC when I found out the official Python extension (which you basically have to use to get things done) automatically installs things like Python 3 typings—ordinary modules, completely unvetted (e.g., typings for Django are maintained by a random guy who last time I used it had nothing to do with Django core team) and installed from PyPI (which totally did not have an avalanche of packages with embedded malware just recently)—and has no option to disable this.

Is there somewhere I can read more about this?

PyCharm does that too, which can be very confusing.

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