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pyright fork with various type checking improvements, improved vscode support and pylance features built into the language server

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2024-04-13 · latest 2025-05-07

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  1. …a modern LSP (I forgot which). Hence, it was forked and someone created basedpyright to fix it: https://github.com/DetachHead/basedpyright
  2. last time i looked the people were recommending basedpyright: https://github.com/DetachHead/basedpyright
    comment by arccy · 2025-05-05 · in Kate and Python Language Server
  3. Might be worth checking out https://github.com/DetachHead/basedpyright But I’ve had the same issue with too many warnings, mypy is better at understanding Python but even slower.
  4. Everyone is already recommending pyright, but I'll suggest checking the "based" community fork: https://github.com/detachhead/basedpyright Besides re-adding features that Microsoft makes exclusive to pylance, it tweaks a number of features…
  5. …how much DRM there is in Pylance So just don't use it? The linked discussion points to Basedpyright https://github.com/detachhead/basedpyright/ as the best free alternative right now (with some additional features around Python optional…
  6. …Based Pyright for anything that isn't Code, and in Code (not Codium) you can use Pylance instead. https://github.com/DetachHead/basedpyright
  7. Haven't used it much yet, but basedpyright appears to be a promising fork of pyright https://github.com/DetachHead/basedpyright
    comment by pseudo_meta · 2024-07-23 · in Beyond Hypermodern: Python is easy now
  8. basedpyright: https://github.com/DetachHead/basedpyright (assuming you can't/don't use MSFT's pylance)
    comment by Terretta · 2024-07-09 · in Don't use booleans (2019)
  9. …a.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... with this modern example in mind. (Also worth mentioning https://github.com/detachhead/basedpyright?tab=readme-ov-fil... which is a heroic effort to derisk this, but it's an uphill battle for…
  10. …with some improvements, less arbitrary limitations, and does not require npm to install. [1] https://github.com/detachhead/basedpyright