We’re excited to announce the May 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!
This release includes the following announcements:
- “Implement all inherited abstract classes” code action
- New auto indentation setting
- Debugpy removed from the Python extension in favor of the Python Debugger extension
- Socket disablement now possible during testing
- Pylance performance updates
If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions.
“Implement all inherited abstract classes” Code Action
Abstract classes serve as “blueprints” for other classes and help build modular, reusable code by promoting clear structure and requirements for subclasses to adhere to. To define an abstract class in Python, you can create a class that inherits from the ABC class in the abc module, and annotate its methods with the @abstractmethod decorator. Then, you can create new classes that inherit from this abstract class, and define an implementation for the base methods. Implementing these classes is easier with the latest Pylance pre-release! When defining a new class that inherits from an abstract one, you can now use the “Implement all inherited abstract classes” Code Action to automatically implement all abstract methods and properties from the parent class:
New auto indentation setting
Previously, Pylance’s auto indentation behavior was controlled through the editor.formatOnType setting, which used to be problematic if one would want to disable auto indentation, but enable format on type through other supported tools. To solve this problem, Pylance’s latest pre-release now has its own setting to control auto indentation behavior, python.analysis.autoIndent, which is enabled by default.
