Add Qualifier to Objects in Error Tooltips to Disambiguate Objects with the Same Name

[savannahostrowski]

Environment data

• Language Server version: 2021.5.2
• OS and version: Windows
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.8

Expected behaviour

It'd be nice to have a qualifier (e.g. class name) for objects in type error messages so that when there are incompatible types, it's easy to distinguish that different object are being compared.

Actual behaviour

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Code Snippet / Additional information

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• I'm breaking my own rules and not filling out the template. 🙂 Please don't do this.

[erictraut]

I've changed the code to detect the case where the X is incompatible with Y diagnostic message is misleading because types X and Y have the same short name. When this occurs, the fully-qualified name will be used instead, like this:

[jakebailey]

This issue has been fixed in version 2021.5.3, which we've just released. You can find the changelog here: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#202153-19-may-2021