show class hierarchy or method override like pycharm

[yiciu]

For now, we can't see at a glance which methods in the class override the methods of the parent class. Whether this function can be added in subsequent versions, as in pycharm, you can jump to the method in the overriding parent class through the icon to see.

[judej]

Waiting for upvotes on this feature request

[luabud]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[brettcannon]

Thank you to everyone who upvoted this issue! Since the community showed interest in this feature request we will leave this issue open as something to consider implementing at some point in the future.

We do encourage people to continue 👍 the first/opening comment as it helps us prioritize our work based on what the community seems to want the most.

[andrewellis55]

The title of this issue mentions a "Class Hierarchy" feature, however the text mostly discusses method overrides. I'm not sure if this issue will look into the Hierarchy portion as well, however here are some docs on the PyCharm Hierarchy features if so

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/viewing-structure-and-hierarchy-of-the-source-code.html#ws_build_hierarchy

[ArkiZh]

Looking forward to this feature "View hierarchies conveniently".

This is a big reason why I am still using PyCharm as the main editor, since it's very convenient to analyze code structure while developing complex projects which usually contain complex class hierarchies.

I think this feature should contain:

1. Prompt for class, method implementations by icons near line number. As @yiciu mentioned.
2. Show the class hierarchy in a separate place. As @andrewellis55 mentioned.

[msouff]

[parijathakumar]

Very much interested in this feature. 👍 If an open poll is created, many would vote for it, I suppose. Though I've been waiting for this feature for long, it's only today that I found this issue, or bothered to find if this issue already exists or not.

[brettcannon]

If an open poll is created

The poll is 👍 reactions on the first comment/OP.

[ArkiZh]

How is it going now?

[brettcannon]

How is it going now?

As the "needs proposal" label indicates, at this point someone needs to come forward with a proposal on how to make this feature work, both from a UX and code perspective. As of right now this is the 11th most upvoted issue, so it's not at the top. You can also always check our iteration plan to see if something is scheduled to be worked on in the next month (this specific issue is not).

[mahes1287]

eagerly waiting for this feature

[pbasimfa]

This is really helpful if added. Saves time in repos with a deep class hierarchy (regardless of it being a bad practice)

[MilanHofmann]

Please add this feature!

[elskito]

@elskito, I agree. Despite Jude's comment that he was closing the issue, it appears it was never closed. I'm going to hide our three comments to avoid future confusion. I appreciate you pointing this out.

Could you please tag this as well? It's been a while since the OP made a suggestion, and after checking other issues, this request has the most thumbs up. Any information about implementing this feature in future releases would also be wonderful :)

[rbli-john]

Eagerly waiting for this feature

[heejaechang]

whether current method override a method or not is cheap, but finding out whether other classes overriding this method is expensive. that's why we are hesitant. but once we do full mode (#5434), we might put this feature under full mode since they opt-in to richer features at the expense of performance.

[condemil]

For now pylance already checks for reportIncompatibleMethodOverride, having at least an icon to go the method of the parent class will be a big benefit from usability point of view.

[heejaechang]

let me put this back to triage.

[AHJiapengZhang]

Hoping for updates! Python 3.12 has introduced @OverRide decorator, which makes things slightly easier. But it would still be convenient if VSCode can tell me:

1. Inside the parent class, that this method has been overriden by a few subclasses(and can navigate to subclass method implementation)
2. Within a subclass, highlight the method that has overriden parent method(and jump to parent method easily to compare the difference).