I am familiar with Pycharm and new to VSCode. I would like to "go to definition" like I did in Pycharm but I can't figure out how to. Btw I set up the environment in WSL2 Ubuntu and code from local with WSL VSCode extension.

Directory tree view is like :
src
 |-calculation
    |-base_class.py
    |-particular_class.py
 |-db_related_module
    |-db_class.py

and each module has:

base_class.py

class BaseClass():

    def __init__(self, DbClass):
        self.db_cls = DbClass

particular_class.py

from base_class import BaseClass
from db_related_module.db_class import DbClass


class ParticularCalClass(BaseClass):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(
            DbClass
        )

    def some_calculation(self):
        do_db_stuff = self.db_cls
        ret = do_db_stuff.execute_sql()
        return ret


def main():
    calc_cls = ParticularCalClass()
    print(calc_cls.some_calculation())

main()

db_class.py

class DbClass():

    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def execute_sql():
        return "execute some sql"

Here I would like to jump from particular_class.py

ret = do_db_stuff.execute_sql()

to db_class.py

def execute_sql():

as it is the definition.

CodePudding user response：

Normally that would be using F12, or right click and go to definition.

CodePudding user response：

After testing this is the same problem on my machine. So I filed a report on GitHub and here is their response:

The import in line from base_class import BaseClass is incorrect in this scenario. It should be from calculation.base_class import BaseClass. And you will need to have PYTHONPATH=./src. If you have from base_class import BaseClass python won't know where the base_class module is, so you won't see go to definition working. you will wither have to add calculation directory to sys.path or change the import as I recommended above.