Autocomplete imports from subdirectories

[matthew-mcallister]

Hi folks,

Is it currently possible to get autocompleted symbols to generate correct import statements for a package in a subdirectory of a monorepo? By a monorepo, I mean any project which has one (or more) Python packages not at root level. I.e. the directory structure resembles this:

project/
  lib/
    foolib/
      __init__.py
  backend/
    fooweb/
      __init__.py
  frontend/
    index.js

If I import bar from foolib, the generated import is for lib.foolib.bar instead of foolib.bar, even from modules within foolib.

I've seen this Stack Overflow answer, but adding my package directories to python.autoComplete.extraPaths didn't change anything.

Thanks.

[brettcannon]

For this sort of structure you typically set up a multi-root workspace where you treat each subdirectory as separate workspaces. But even then I don't think you would get what you're after in terms of inserting automatic imports.

Could you open an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release ?

[matthew-mcallister]

This problem miraculously fixed itself. I think Pylance was probably responsible actually; should I maybe open an issue about documenting this behavior or something?

[brettcannon]

Definitely wouldn't hurt!

[matthew-mcallister]

Oh my gosh... this problem fixed itself. After restarting VSCode, this line was automatically added to my settings:

"python.analysis.extraPaths": ["./backend"]

When I have both this and "python.autoComplete.extraPaths": ["./backend"] set, imports work exactly as I want them to.