goto references on __init__ should show me all locations of construction

[rwols]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The clangd language server has this nice feature where if you "goto reference" on a constructor, it shows all places where a new instance is constructed of that class.

pyright should do this for __init__ methods as well. It currently reports "no references".

It already shows references when I "goto reference" on the name of the class, but among those references are also import statements, and type annotations. That's too much noise if I just want to know where instances are constructed.

Describe the solution you'd like
Doing "goto references" on an __init__ method should show me only the places of construction, not imports and type annotations.

Additional context
Perhaps it's also an idea to show all places where the instance of a class is (implicitly) converted to a string if you "goto references" on a __str__ method.

[erictraut]

Thanks for the feature request. I think this is worth considering, although it introduces an inconsistency that gives me some pause.

Since this is a language server feature rather than a core type checking feature, I'm going to transfer it to the pylance repo where it will get the appropriate attention and discussion.

[jakebailey]

I remember talking about this a few months ago. I'm surprised we didn't have a canonical issue for this, thanks. I think that this makes sense.

[judej]

Moving this issue to discussion as an enhancement request for comments and upvotes.