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+# Most Requested Features and Bugs in Pylance
+
+This document provides a comprehensive overview of the most requested features and bugs in the Pylance extension, based on community feedback from GitHub Discussions and Issues, sorted by number of reactions (👍).
+
+**Last Updated:** January 19, 2026  
+**Maintenance:** This document is maintained by the community and should be updated quarterly or when significant changes occur in top-requested items.
+
+## Top Features and Enhancements
+
+### 1. Improved Docstring Display Support (363 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#1848](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/1848)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Enhanced support for Python docstrings, including recognition of existing docstrings with defined parameters/types and auto-generation of docstrings with type inference from function signatures.
+
+### 2. Show Class Hierarchy / Method Override Indicators (367 reactions) - ⏳ OPEN
+**Issue:** [#4972](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4972)  
+**Status:** Open (assigned)  
+**Description:** Display visual indicators (similar to PyCharm) showing which methods in a class override parent class methods, with ability to jump to the overriding parent method through icons.
+
+### 3. Import Resolution Issues (130 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#236](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/236)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** "Import could not be resolved" errors for valid imports, particularly for local modules in subdirectories.
+
+### 4. Auto-Import Settings Control (120 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#64](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/64)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Ability to disable or configure auto-imports behavior to avoid unwanted automatic import suggestions.
+
+### 5. Support for PyScript & Brython (47 reactions) - ⏳ OPEN
+**Issue:** [#6760](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/6760)  
+**Status:** Open (assigned)  
+**Description:** Enable Python language support in HTML files for PyScript and Brython projects, including code highlighting and autocompletion for Python code directly in HTML files.
+
+### 6. Add Support for Context-Based Code Actions (39 reactions) - ⏳ OPEN
+**Issue:** [#5368](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/5368)  
+**Status:** Open (assigned)  
+**Description:** Provide refactoring code actions depending on context:
+- Create parameter from undefined variable
+- Create class from undefined class reference
+- Create method from undefined function call
+
+### 7. Improved Django Support (30 reactions) - ⏳ OPEN
+**Issue:** [#3701](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/3701)  
+**Status:** Open (assigned)  
+**Description:** Enhanced Django support including:
+- Completion for all related keys generated by Django ORM
+- Extended completions for filter operations based on key names
+- Go to definition on models referenced in settings.py
+- Completions on models in settings.py
+- manage.py shortcuts
+
+### 8. Hide Private Variables/Attributes in Autocomplete (30 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#5281](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/5281)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Option to hide variables/attributes starting with underscore(s) from autocomplete suggestions outside their scope.
+
+### 9. Moving Folders/Files Does Not Update Imports (33 reactions) - ⏳ OPEN
+**Issue:** [#7051](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/7051)  
+**Status:** Open (assigned)  
+**Description:** When moving folders or multiple files, Python imports are not automatically refactored. Works only when moving a single file.
+
+### 10. Different Docstring Format Support (29 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#48](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/48)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Support for Google-style docstrings and other popular docstring formats (not just reStructuredText).
+
+## Top Bugs and Issues
+
+### 1. Compatibility Issues Between Versions (48 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#5019](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/5019)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Pylance v2023.10.50 incompatibility with older Python Extension versions, causing licensing error messages.
+
+### 2. PEP-660 Editable Installs Not Recognized (27 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#3473](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/3473)  
+**Status:** Closed (by design)  
+**Description:** Pylance not recognizing imports from PEP-660 editable installs with non-standard directory structures.
+
+### 3. Jupyter Notebook Pylance Instability (27 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#4742](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4742)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Pylance becomes unstable in Jupyter notebooks after 1-2 hours, losing syntax highlighting and error detection.
+
+### 4. Virtual Environment Configuration (25 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#330](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/330)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Difficulty setting Pylance to use virtual Python environments (venv, conda, etc.).
+
+### 5. Color Picker Support (26 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#6761](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/6761)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Invoke color picker for color values in Python code (RGB tuples, hex strings) similar to other languages.
+
+### 6. Go to Definition Goes to Stub Files (70 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#65](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/65)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** "Go to Definition" navigating to stub files (.pyi) instead of actual implementation code.
+
+### 7. Refactoring: Move Module Members (73 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#76](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/76)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Refactoring feature to move variables or functions to different modules and automatically update all imports.
+
+### 8. Line-Level Error Suppression (61 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#196](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/196)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Allow suppression of specific errors on individual lines (similar to `# pylint: disable=...`).
+
+### 9. reportGeneralTypeIssues Too Generic (28 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#497](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/497)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** The `reportGeneralTypeIssues` category covers both certain errors and assumed errors, making it difficult to handle differently.
+
+### 10. Refactoring Features for File/Module/Variable Names (45 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#1510](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/1510)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Add comprehensive refactoring support for renaming files, modules, and variables with automatic update of all references.
+
+## Additional Notable Issues
+
+### Library-Specific Issues
+
+#### TensorFlow Support (34 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#1066](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/1066)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Pylance not properly resolving TensorFlow modules like `tensorflow.data`.
+
+#### NumPy Type Information (25 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#150](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/150)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Missing type information for numpy, showing "Unknown" for numpy types like `np.ndarray`.
+
+#### OpenCV (cv2) Intellisense (22 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#138](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/138)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** No intellisense for OpenCV (cv2) methods.
+
+#### Attrs Library Support (35 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#226](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/226)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Pylance not recognizing constructor parameters from attrs library decorators.
+
+### Configuration and Settings
+
+#### VS Code Settings Schema Recognition (28 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#16](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/16)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** JSON config file not recognizing Pylance as a valid language server option.
+
+#### Support for `pylance.analysis.exclude` Setting (33 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#1150](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/1150)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Add VS Code setting to exclude directories from analysis (similar to pyrightconfig.json).
+
+### Debugging and Error Handling
+
+#### EMFILE: Too Many Open Files (24 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#936](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/936)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Error when opening Python files due to too many file handles being opened.
+
+#### Local Import Resolution (25 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#519](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/519)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Pylance cannot resolve imports of local .py files in the same directory.
+
+#### Local Imports in Subdirectories (36 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#68](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/68)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Local imports not resolving correctly when files are in subdirectories.
+
+### Code Quality and Enhancement Features
+
+#### Fold All Docstrings Command (25 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#4677](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4677)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Add command to fold all docstrings in a file to improve code readability.
+
+#### Folding Range Support (23 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#372](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/372)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Support for LSP folding-range requests to enable better code folding.
+
+#### functools.wraps Decorator Support (26 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#442](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/442)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Special-case support for `@functools.wraps` to preserve function signatures in decorators.
+
+#### functools.partial Parameter Hints (21 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#1434](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/1434)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Parameter hints not updating when using `functools.partial`.
+
+#### Auto-Update Import Paths on File Move/Rename (20 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#127](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/127)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Automatically update import paths throughout the project when moving or renaming Python files.
+
+### Jupyter Notebook Issues
+
+#### Jupyter Notebook Cell Deletion Crash (21 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#4685](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4685)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Pylance crashes when deleting cells in Jupyter notebooks in specific orders.
+
+#### Jupyter Notebook Syntax Highlighting Failure (23 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#5543](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/5543)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Syntax highlighting fails in Jupyter notebooks after switching focus between documents.
+
+### Documentation
+
+#### Missing Docstrings for Builtins (25 reactions) - ✅ COMPLETED
+**Issue:** [#49](https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/49)  
+**Status:** Closed  
+**Description:** Missing docstrings for Python builtin functions and classes in hover tooltips.
+
+## Summary Statistics
+
+- **Total Issues Analyzed:** 43
+- **Closed/Completed:** 38 (88%)
+- **Still Open:** 5 (12%)
+- **Average Reactions (Top 20):** 52 reactions
+- **Peak Reactions:** 367 reactions (#4972 - Class Hierarchy)
+
+## Key Themes
+
+### Most Requested Features (By Category):
+1. **Refactoring & Code Actions** - Move files/folders, rename with auto-update, context-based code generation
+2. **Enhanced Language Support** - PyScript/Brython, Django, better library stubs
+3. **Developer Experience** - Class hierarchy visualization, docstring management, auto-imports control
+4. **Type Checking Improvements** - Better handling of dynamic types, partial function support
+
+### Most Common Bugs (By Category):
+1. **Import Resolution** - Local imports, virtual environments, editable installs
+2. **Jupyter Notebook Issues** - Stability, syntax highlighting, cell operations
+3. **Library Compatibility** - NumPy, TensorFlow, OpenCV, attrs
+4. **Performance** - File handle limits, large projects
+
+## Recommendations
+
+### High Priority Open Items:
+1. **Class Hierarchy/Method Override Indicators** (#4972) - Highly requested IDE feature parity with PyCharm
+2. **Moving Folders/Multiple Files Import Refactoring** (#7051) - Critical refactoring gap
+3. **Django Support** (#3701) - Important for Django developer ecosystem
+4. **Context-Based Code Actions** (#5368) - Productivity enhancement
+5. **PyScript & Brython Support** (#6760) - Emerging Python-in-browser ecosystem
+
+### Community Engagement:
+- The community is very active with detailed bug reports and feature requests
+- Most issues are well-documented with reproduction steps
+- High completion rate indicates responsive development team
+- Many features implemented after community feedback
+
+## Notes
+
+- This report is based on GitHub Issues sorted by reaction count (👍)
+- Many highly-requested features have already been implemented
+- The development team has been very responsive to community feedback
+- Several library-specific issues require upstream stub packages
+- Import resolution and refactoring remain active areas of development
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 The Pylance name is a small ode to Monty Python's Lancelot who was the first knight to answer the bridgekeeper's questions in the Holy Grail.
 
+Community Feedback
+------------------
+Interested in what features and improvements the community is requesting? Check out our [Most Requested Features and Bugs](MOST_REQUESTED_FEATURES_AND_BUGS.md) document to see what's being prioritized based on community feedback.
+
 Quick Start
 ============
 1. Install the [Python extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python) from the marketplace. Pylance will be installed as an optional extension.