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Support for workspace symbols #237

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@jgarte

I ask because I tried using this package and it complained that pylsp does not support this feature. It worked well with pyright though.

Does pyright support symbols and pylsp not?

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  1. ccordoba12 commented on Jul 6, 2022

    @ccordoba12
    Member

    Correct, Pylsp doesn't support workspace symbols, sorry.

  2. jgarte commented on Jul 7, 2022

    @jgarte
    Author

    Is there any plans to implement it?

    @ccordoba12

    What's you approach to workspace symbols? Do you prefer not to use this feature?

  3. ccordoba12 commented on Jul 7, 2022

    @ccordoba12
    Member

    There are no plans right now, sorry.

    Maybe Jedi offers this functionality but we haven't checked because there has been little interest for it.

  4. astoff commented on Aug 8, 2022

    @astoff

    For the record, I find the workspace symbols feature quite useful. One can always grep the project for def something, but that's not as handy. It would also seem relatively straightforward to implement, which gives it a pretty good cost/benefit ratio.

  5. changed the title [-]Are workspace symbols supported?[/-] [+]Support for workspace symbols[/+] on Aug 8, 2022
  6. ccordoba12 commented on Aug 8, 2022

    @ccordoba12
    Member

    It seems this is supported by Jedi, so it's feasible here. However, we're swamped with other things, so I don't know when we'll have time to implement it.

  7. tristone13th commented on Sep 28, 2022

    @tristone13th

    In the README I saw you mentioned that Jedi can provide this function, so does it mean we can use it well now?

  8. ccordoba12 commented on Sep 28, 2022

    @ccordoba12
    Member

    No, we need to implement that functionality in the way expected by the LSP protocol here.

  9. jgarte commented on Sep 29, 2022

    @jgarte
    Author

    No, we need to implement that functionality in the way expected by the LSP protocol here.

    @ccordoba12 Thanks for clarifying that for us.

  10. eyalk11 commented on Jan 6, 2024

    @eyalk11

    Made a pull request to resolve it. #511

  11. Cadair commented on Mar 5, 2025

    @Cadair

    Just wanted to politely bump this, I would find it very useful and would love to see an implementation merged.

  12. agzam commented on Apr 3, 2025

    @agzam

    Seriously? How the heck an lsp-server doesn't support one of the most important features? Kind of a break-dealer, no?

  13. savchenko commented on Apr 19, 2025

    @savchenko

    OK, which Python LSP server provides workspace symbols?

  14. agzam commented on Apr 19, 2025

    @agzam

    OK, which Python LSP server provides workspace symbols?

    basedpyright does.

    upd: I initially replied from my phone, came to find my laptop to edit my own comment for clarification. Even though my initial question may look like demanding and kind of a dick comment, it was genuine. I don't even write Python day-to-day, I just needed to explore a couple of projects done by another team and I wished for lsp support. I found this project and the number of interesting features implemented in it got me excited. I wasn't even disappointed, but rather confused and surprised by the lack of this feature. Project-wide workspace symbol lookup is one of the most used features for me in other languages I use, so my confusion I believe was justified.

    I posted my question because I thought maybe, there's an easy workaround. Turns out basedpyright supports the feature, but if it gets implemented here, I would happily use it. Like I said, I have no horses in this race, I'm not actively writing Python - I don't really care for the best and most complete implementation of all the lsp features in a server, but particularly this feature, for me personally is somewhat important.

  15. jbirnick commented on Oct 7, 2025

    @jbirnick

    Would love to have workspace symbols too, I use them all the time in my development workflow!

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