<> in docstrings gets rendered as &lt;&gt; on hovering over calls

[ghost]

Environment data

• VS Code version:

1.52.1
ea3859d4ba2f3e577a159bc91e3074c5d85c0523
x64

• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): v2020.12.424452561
• OS and version: Ubuntu 20.04
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.8.5
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | ...): venv
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Pylance

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Expected behaviour

The docstrings should be rendered correctly.

Actual behaviour

The < and > characters when placed inside code blocks in docstrings get rendered as < and > respectively when moue is hovered over definition of the function (or class) or a call to the function.

Steps to reproduce:

Consider this code:

When I hover over the definition, it shows the docstring as:

I don't think it was supposed to be this way and it must be something with this extension because this doesn't happen with other languages.

[jakebailey]

This issue has been fixed in version 2021.3.1, which we've just released. You can find the changelog here: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#202131-10-march-2021