Overview

Pylance is an extension from Microsoft that utilized the Language Server Protocol (LSP) to enable IDE features such as code completion, parameter suggestions, auto-imports, code outline, code navigation, syntax checking, type checking, and syntax highlighting.

Modify settings.json to enable this extension and configure options.

  "python.languageServer": "Pylance",

For strict type checking, add the following:

  "python.analysis.typeCheckingMode": "strict",

To avoid adding two blank lines before and after each function definition:

  "python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--ignore=E302,E305"],

To enable the Pyright type checker to use type stub files that you have downloaded, add the following (THIS DID NOT WORK!):

  "pyright.stubPath": "{directory-path}",

More detail is coming soon!