Pylance is an extension that works alongside Python in Visual Studio Code to provide performant language support. Under the hood, Pylance is powered by Pyright, Microsoft's static type checking tool.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Python language support with extension access points for IntelliSense (Pylance), Debugging (Python Debugger), linting, formatting, refactoring, unit tests, and …

This license applies to the Pylance Extension for Visual Studio Code product. This downloadable extension includes open source code available at the https://github.com/microsoft/pyright in addition …

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Extension for Visual Studio Code - Fork of vscode-python. Use open source jedi language server instead of pylance. Support python edit, debug, format.

Basedpyright is a fork of pyright with various type checking improvements, pylance features and more. See the documentation for information about why this fork exists, and a comprehensive list of …

Aug 23, 2025 · Extension for Visual Studio Code - Scopes Pylance analysis to each workspace folder and auto-disables it if a folder exceeds a file-count threshold.

Pylance (ms-python.vscode-pylance) - Fast, feature-rich language support for Python. Python Docstring Generator (njpwerner.autodocstring) - Automatically generates detailed docstrings for your Python …

For most VS Code users, we recommend using the Pylance extension rather than Pyright. Pylance incorporates the Pyright type checker but features additional capabilities such as semantic token …

The extension offers import suggestions only after a from module import statement is present inside the file, while Pylance is much broader (albeit currently not working for third-party modules).