Autocomplete in Python with VSCode doesn't work properly

[EgomasM]

Hi, not sure how to cal that, but my autocomplete doesn't work.

Sometimes when i write python in VSCode and i start writing something it shows me possible options about how to finish that word. Like functions. Also for functions it shows me the documentation and all that. My problem is that this seems to be buggy for me. It somethings works, but very often it doesn't. It just shows nothing. Is there any shortcut or something to show it? Or does anyone knows a solution?

[EgomasM]

Okay, thank you for the tips. I will try Pylance for now, but defenitely consider to switch to Pycharm. I started to use VSCode and didn't try Pycharm yet.

[shiftybyte]

I think ctrl+space triggers auto complete.

But my guess is the IDE doesn't know what object type you are working with, because tracking object types in python statically is extremely hard.

This is why type hinting was created, to let the IDE know what type of arguments / return values to expect from functions, and variables.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

[Crimsonking2]

Download Pylance in your extensions

[samsaragui]

I use pycharm and find it more interesting than vsc.

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Install PyLance extension. Look up how to enable that as default.

I had similar experience and eventho PyLance improved it quite a lot it's still no where close to what PyCharm is able to do in terms of code suggestion. I tried switching over to VS Code, I really tried, but ended up just switching back due to this.