Snippet support in completions

[leungbk]

It would be nice if snippets were given in completions. For example, with the insertion point at [-] in

def factorial(n: int) -> int:
    return 1 if n == 0 else n * fa[-]

one of the completions could be, using snippet syntax,

factorial${1:(${2:n: int})}

Type-inferencing could be useful here to let us automatically drop the outer pair of braces depending on context.

[erictraut]

Thanks for the suggestion. This is a feature that we probably wouldn't add to pyright, which is the core type checking engine, but we would consider adding it to pylance. I've copied your feature request to the pylance-release repo so it gets the appropriate attention there. Thanks again!

[hungrybirder]

Thanks for the suggestion. This is a feature that we probably wouldn't add to pyright, which is the core type checking engine, but we would consider adding it to pylance. I've copied your feature request to the pylance-release repo so it gets the appropriate attention there. Thanks again!

I'm very sad for this reply from a neovim user's perspective.
Pyright is not only an excellent checking engine but also a very fast languager server.

If pyright supports snippets, I can speed up editing code definitely.

Could you reconsider this great feature?

Thank you.

[MagicRB]

Well this exchange made my morning. Lol (I use Emacs so it affects me too, but I don't use python.)