Python Function Parameter Auto-completion Not Working

[navicenna]

Environment data

VS Code version: 1.19.3
Python Extension version: Version 0.9.1 (19 December 2017)
Python Version: Python 3.6.3 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)
OS and version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. add "python.useCodeSnippetsOnMethodSuggest": true, to user settings
2. function parameters don't auto-complete.

Summary

Function parameter auto-completion works with Typescript using the above setting (i.e. "typescript.useCodeSnippetsOnMethodSuggest": true), but not with Python.

Thanks for the help.

[DonJayamanne]

Please could you try installing the insiders build from here and letting us know whether the issue still exists. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#insiders-build.

FYI: The following settig is not supported by Python.
"python.useCodeSnippetsOnMethodSuggest": true,

I'm not sure what "typescript.useCodeSnippetsOnMethodSuggest": true does.
If the insiders build doesn't work as expected, please provide further information (preferably with screen samples) on the expected behavior.

[gainskills]

Verified the insider-build on MAC: snippet works as expected.
VS version: 1.19.3
Python: 3.6.

Thanks a lot.

[navicenna]

Thanks, I was able to install the insiders build, however the issue persists.

"typescript.useCodeSnippetsOnMethodSuggest": true is an option that auto-completes function parameters, meaning that when you press Tab to auto-complete a function, it will also write the open and close parentheses, as well as the function parameters for you. It's some kind of snippet behavior.

Typescript supports that kind of behavior with the above option. Python, however, doesn't. Please see below images. When I press Tab to autocomplete, it only auto-completes the function name and not the parameters.

[brettcannon]

We are going to make this a Help Wanted item as we don't have the time to do this and getting it right for the majority of cases may be difficult due to Python's rich call signature support (e.g. how to you handle keyword-only arguments? *args and **kwargs?). But if someone were to come along and provide a PR -- or this got a ton of upvotes -- then we would look at merging the PR.

[dann1]

It would be nice to have this, sublime text's Anaconda extension does this. I moved from sublime to vscode and I miss this a lot 😭