VS Code Pyright extension: Feature contributions

[thernstig]

The VS Code Pyright extension adds several settings to VS Code:

Coming from:

pyright/packages/vscode-pyright/package.json

Lines 118 to 127 in 4c49f51

	"configuration": {
	"type": "object",
	"title": "Pyright",
	"properties": {
	"python.analysis.autoImportCompletions": {
	"type": "boolean",
	"default": true,
	"description": "Offer auto-import completions.",
	"scope": "resource"
	},

But checking the default settings.json it shows:

  // Offer auto-import completions.
  "python.analysis.autoImportCompletions": false,

Is there something awry here? The extension says the default is true whilst the default config says false.

[erictraut]

This is a setting whose default differs between the pyright extension and the pylance extension. A subset of pylance users indicated that they didn't like the auto-import feature, so the pylance team decided to disable it by default. This decision was controversial. In pyright, it's enabled by default.

I'm not sure where you're seeing "the default settings.json" set to false. Is it possible that you have both pylance and pyright installed at the same time? You should stick with one or the other, not both.

[thernstig]

Got it. The confusion stems from that both extensions adds a top-level python. part to the config, meaning it is not easy to know which extension is adding what. If it were pyright. it would have made more sense.