fix(python): improved namespace/accessor behaviour (resolves VSCode autocomplete issue) #5469
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Closes #5460.
Building the docs properly requires access to the
Expr
&Series
namespaces from the class-level, so the@accessor
decorator (which is capable of also behaving as a classproperty) was introduced. PyCharm autocomplete is fine with this, but apparently VSCode is not.Given that this access pattern is only required for sphinx docs to build, I've reworked it so that the docs build exports a temporary environment variable, allowing the
@accessor
to function as such only when building docs, and to map to a vanilla@property
in all other cases (eg: developing/editing, runtime, etc).With this new approach I have confirmed that the docs still correctly generate namespaced methods (without exposing the internal/private paths) and that proper autocomplete is preserved for both VSCode & PyCharm (screenshots below). Best of both worlds...
(Also fixes several accessor-related linting issues).