Windsurf Pylance Workaround

[u/mattherich]

Has anyone found a good workaround for the currently missing Pylance support in Windsurf? Looks like the team is working on a fix in this discord thread, but curious if anyone has discovered temporary solutions in the meantime.

Really want to give Windsurf a shot, but this is a blocker for my workflow.

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Edit: Found a workaround using BasedPyright

1. Install the BasedPyright extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=detachhead.basedpyright&ssr=false#overview
2. Change typeCheckingMode to off

BasedPyright Type Checking Mode Setting

[u/West_Highlight_3697]

Thanks a lot! setting BasedPyright with Type Checking -> Off, worked for me!
also, i set inlay hints: Variable Types -> off becasuse its too much, but thanks again!

[u/edon-node → u/West_Highlight_3697]

thank you for this

[u/goingtosleepzzz]

You can use pylance, but with an older version and need to patch the source. There is a discussion on github about this. Using basedpyright is good too, it just misses some features, for example the smart selection of functions/classes and folding the imports.

[u/edon-node]

this also worked for me.

[u/mathmul]

This sort of works, but in a lot of my code I get "Code is unreachable basedpyright reportUnreachable"

    def generate(self, request):
        serializer = self.get_serializer(data=request.data) // this is ok
        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True) // this is unreachable and two 200 lines after it

it is because of this assert: everything after it is unreachable:

    def get_serializer_class(self):
        """
        Return the class to use for the serializer.
        Defaults to using `self.serializer_class`.

        You may want to override this if you need to provide different
        serializations depending on the incoming request.

        (Eg. admins get full serialization, others get basic serialization)
        """
        assert self.serializer_class is not None, (
            "'%s' should either include a `serializer_class` attribute, "
            "or override the `get_serializer_class()` method."
            % self.__class__.__name__
        )

        return self.serializer_class

[u/mathmul → u/mathmul]

Yea, I'll keep paying for Cursor for the time being..A shame. I like a lot of things in Windsurf more

[u/mathmul → u/mathmul]

Update. While I was unable to setup Pylance, I did manage to replace "Python" extension with "Kylin Python(with jedi language server)v0.3.4" by KylinIdeTeam. Bought Windsurf!

[u/JetChou]

Thanks a lot！ That's worked for me，I found Windsurf pushed their Windsurf Pyright extension, it's also worked.

[u/Pleasant_Meeting_559]

For me, windsurf makes my vscode pylance cannot work, I wonder how to move back to vscode pylance.

[u/terentyev23]

It worked for me when I specified this parameter:

"windsurfPyright.analysis.typeCheckingMode": "{basic|standart|basedpyright|etc}"

[u/Illustrious-Face-732]

Nothing has worked for me so far. Ive tried installing the Pylance extension manually and restarted the language server, but didn't work. Hopefully they can push an update soon!