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expectant172

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Registered: 2026-01-24

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VS Code Python Syntax Highlighting Not Working

VS code , code-marketplace and code-features, installed via pacman or from AUR, does not have proper intellisense or syntax highlighting behavior. Below is the issue:

Firstly, there is no highlighting of the imports, call to the Node() object, or method call on the Node() object. I would expect highlights for all of these.

Secondly, intellisense did not do any auto-completions when writing the initializer, which it always does when I’m working on my mac.

Things I’ve tried:

- Installing/reinstalling python extension, which includes pylance
- Installing magic python
- Changing my python.languageserver to pylance. When I do this I get a popup upon opening vs code that says “The pylance extension is not installed but the python.languageServer value is set to “Pylance” Would you like to install the Pylance extension to use Pylance, or revert back to Jedi?”. When I click “Install Pylance”, nothing happens. But I know that it should already be installed via the python extension. I suspect this might have something to do with the buggy behavior described.
- All these things but on VScodium

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Last edited by expectant172 (Yesterday 01:30:59)