"Go to symbol in workspace" does not see the symbol

[ibobak]

Type: Bug

Behaviour

it looks like symbols are not accessible in the "Go to symbol in workspace" lookup.

Steps to reproduce:

I have a python project with a dedicated environment and several libraries set in settings:

When I am trying to find the symbol ("go to symbol in workspace"), I don't see it:

It would be good to make so that all symbols of all packages of my environment were accessible in this search.

Contrary to VS code, PyCharm does this search by default:

Diagnostic data

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

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Extension version: 2024.6.0
VS Code version: Code 1.89.1 (dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685, 2024-05-07T05:16:23.416Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.4.6-060406-generic
Modes:

• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.10.13
• Type of virtual environment used (e.g. conda, venv, virtualenv, etc.): Venv
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Pylance

User Settings

languageServer: "Pylance"

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[heejaechang]

yes, this is currently not supported in pylance.

[heejaechang]

Repro workspace for investigation:
https://github.com/heejaechang/pylance-repro/tree/main/pylance-issues/5933

[heejaechang]

@ibobak this is now supported through two opt-in settings that were added since you filed this issue:

• python.analysis.includeVenvInWorkspaceSymbols — surfaces symbols from installed packages in your active virtual environment when you use "Go to Symbol in Workspace" (Ctrl+T).
  Docs: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/settings/python_analysis_includeVenvInWorkspaceSymbols.md
• python.analysis.includeExtraPathSymbolsInSymbolSearch — does the same for paths configured in python.analysis.extraPaths.
  Docs: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/settings/python_analysis_includeExtraPathSymbolsInSymbolSearch.md

A few notes on behavior:

• Both default to false, since scanning environment packages can slow down symbol search on large environments.
• Venv symbols only show up once you type a search query (an empty query is skipped to avoid returning huge result sets).
• Search depth into sub-packages is controlled by python.analysis.packageIndexDepths. For libraries that aren't py.typed, only symbols exported via __all__ in a package's __init__.py are included.

Please give these a try and let us know if they cover your scenario.