isort extension automatically injects self-referencing "file:" dependency that breaks npm behavior

[therightstuff]

Recently, I noticed that all of my package.json files were being injected with a new dependency entry, the name of the package followed by "file:" eg.

   ...,
   "myPackageName": "file:",
   ...

causing certain builds (or deployments) to fail due to the self-reference.

After enabling / disabling each of my extensions, I discovered that the isort extension is what's doing this, it's not clear why nor how to get it to stop. I've now disabled isort on my projects until this is resolved, but I quite like isort so I'd really appreciate it if you guys could fix it.

[therightstuff]

I apologize, it looks like the actual culprit is still at large, there was just a longer delay than usual before the lines were restored. Closing as irrelevant.

[therightstuff]

(for anyone who's been misdirected here and is interested, it turned out to be redhat's dependency analytics )