artbycrunk / maya-completion

python completions for maya packages to be used in visual studio code

Maya Python Completions for Visual Studio Code

These are some stubs files that assist vscode via jedi in autocompleting commands used in the Maya Python codebase.

How to use

• Clone this repo to a local folder on disk. (eg /home/savio/vscode/maya-completion)

• In your vscode settings.json add this local path as a autoComplete extraPath

  "python.autoComplete.extraPaths": ["/home/savio/vscode/maya-completion"]
  

Known Issues

If your using the python language server and python 2.7, there seems to be a bug in vscode-python that doesn't show docstrings correctly.

Read more about it here:

Intellisense not showing docstrings from /lib/site-packages modules in Python 2.7 virtual env #2989 microsoft/vscode-python#2989

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code
• Microsoft Python extension