Intellisense should offer super()-calls when overwriting inherited methods

[hmeine]

In a subclass, I can type "def so" and get an autocompletion popup offering "def some_method" with the complete signature from a parent class I inherit from. I would like these stubs to contain a super call (e.g., super(SubClass, self).some_method(argument1, argument2).

If the method should better be empty by design (not knowing whether a super call makes sense), it would be nice to be able to type "super" and get the full super call offered as IntelliSense completion.

[karthiknadig]

Thank you for the suggestion! We have marked this issue as "needs decision" to make sure we have a conversation about your idea. We plan to leave this feature request open for at least a month to see how many 👍 votes the opening comment gets to help us make our decision.

[hmeine]

Great. I have just changed the title a little bit, because I believe that – while it may be more difficult to implement, I don't know – the idea of offering the super() calls as separate completions within the method body would be less intrusive, more generally desirable, and more flexible (e.g., when the method already exists and the super() call should be added ex post).

[jakebailey]

This will be fixed in the next Pylance release (though not the old form, as we don't support Python 2).

[jakebailey]

This issue has been fixed in version 2020.12.0, which we've just released. You can find the changelog here: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#2020120-2-december-2020

[Diogo-Rossi]

This is a good feature, but can this remains as an option?
Sometimes we may don't want to add the super call (when implementing interfaces/abstract classes, for instance)

Edit

I've opened I new feature request for that #2531