python hints/autocompletion in IDE

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Hi everyone, i managed to build itk with python wrappers on a win10 machine using visual studio 2017. However I am not getting the full hints after importing itk in a visual studio code IDE.

I built master at ENH: Generate stub-files to support type hints · InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK@faa3ab0 · GitHub commit

I can run any code I previously wrote, but for some reason I can’t get autocompletion suggestion other than the quick wraps like imread, imwrite, etc.
For instance I can’t get itk.FlatStructuringElement to be suggested, ora any filter type for that matter.

Am I getting this wrong? Should I move to a more recent commit? I’ve tried building from scratch since the issue was relevant in the pip distribution.

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@kjweimer and @hjmjohnson might be able to help.

What IDE are you using? I know that only PyCharm is advertised as currently supported. If I remember correctly, we would like to expand that.

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Ok, I was worried it may be an IDE issue. Right now I am using VS Code with a python add-on for pylance and other tools. I’ll try my hands on PyCharm and update you.
Thanks for the reply!

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Ok PyCharm is better but it still doesn’t handle all available suggestions, this is possibly due to the fact that I’m not using conda or other virtual environments as well?

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We are using pycharm, but any IDE or tool that supports .pyi files should benefit.

Hans

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