Settings "python.autoComplete.extraPaths" does not look into internal folders unless specifically specified

[r-bit-rry]

We use a local eggs folder for each projects which stores all the dependencies for that project.
However when I specify the path to this eggs folder, autocomplete does not recognize the underlying packages folders (unless I specify each one manually).

for example this is what I specify that works, it is configured in the workspace settings json:
"python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [ "${workspaceFolder}/src", "${workspaceFolder}/eggs/pycparser-2.19-py2.7.egg", "${workspaceFolder}/eggs/asn1crypto-0.24.0-py2.7.egg", "${workspaceFolder}/eggs/ipaddress-1.0.22-py2.7.egg"]
And this doesn't work:
"python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [ "${workspaceFolder}/src", "${workspaceFolder}/eggs"]

using latest daily python language server version 0.3.22 and vscode 1.36.1

[brettcannon]

This actually isn't a bug as the docs for extraPaths specifies that you need to point at packages themselves. I have made this a feature request that we will discuss.

[r-bit-rry]

@brettcannon Thanks, looking forward. Is there an easy workaround that you can suggest for the meantime?
I have more than 30 active projects, most of them have more than 20 dependencies and it can be a real hassle to manually configure the workspace json config.

[brettcannon]

@r-bit-rry don't use eggs? 😉 Joking aside, I would recommend writing a Python script to either update your settings.json for you or generate a JSON snippet to paste into your settings.json file manually.