General Refactoring Support

[arunhallan]

Hi,

Are there any plans to offer refactoring support?

For example, when typing a new class name, VS code can automatically generate the class.

And extract class to a different file?

This is one thing that is making me consider PyCharm (although I really really don't want to).

[judej]

Yes, we will have some refactoring available soon. Hang tight :)

[arunhallan]

Yes, we will have some refactoring available soon. Hang tight :)

Great! How soon? :)

[jakebailey]

The latest insiders today ("pylance.insidersChannel": "daily") includes preview support for code extraction actions.

[arunhallan]

Great! Is there any documentation for the actions?

[jakebailey]

The refactorings will show up as quick actions in the lightbulb menu or when you hit Ctrl+.. There isn't much to document past that.

We're still working on making the core extension's built-in refactorings be disabled when Pylance is running.

[chinoto]

Took me a bit to understand why the lightbulb showed up once, but not after that, turns out your selection has to be exactly around the thing to be manipulated.
I haven't used refactoring too much, so I don't know how common this capability is, but with matklad.rust-analyzer (for Rust), simply having your cursor inside a string or partially selecting a method chain will allow you to extract the code into either a variable or function.
Probably not hugely useful, but making the refactoring options show up on fuzzier selections makes it more obvious that you could do a refactoring.

[judej]

Moving this issue to discussion as an enhancement request for comments and upvotes.