Option to choose severity level of type checking

[MetRonnie]

There is currently python.analysis.typeCheckingMode but no way to choose what severity the identified problems should have. (I would like to set them to INFO level rather than ERROR)

[bschnurr]

I think you are looking for python.analysis.diagnosticSeverityOverrides

see https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/README.md#settings-and-customization

{
    "python.analysis.diagnosticSeverityOverrides": {
        "reportUnboundVariable": "information",
        "reportImplicitStringConcatenation": "warning"
    }
}

[MetRonnie]

That does help, thanks, but it means having to add every type-check category as I come across them rather than do it for all of them

[erictraut]

You have a couple of choices. You can either start with typeCheckingMode set to "basic" and then override all of the rules that emit a warning or error by default. Or you can start with typeCheckingMode set to "off", which sets the severity to most diagnostic rules to "none", and enable only the ones you care about by setting them to "information". Here's a full table of the diagnostic rules.