How to Go to Definition with specified src if I have a cloned repo in the workspace and a pip package at the same time?

[bruce2233]

For example, I cloned transformers package in the vscode workspace and also pip install it. When I use Go to Definition. It always jumps to the cloned one. How to choose or configure the specified src to jump to?

[rchiodo]

What you're really asking is the priority of different paths for resolving where an import comes from. The source for this actually is actually open sourced:
https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/60e4050e0a48a47c6a265f33b5d5084c095f8fd5/packages/pyright-internal/src/analyzer/importResolver.ts#L1550

The order it searches looks like:

• stubPath
• root folder (or workspace folder)
• extraPaths
• site-packages (third party)
• then calls into Pylance which adds the bundled stubs (which are treated as third party).

The _pickBestImport then picks the paths that are considered local over 3rd party.

Sorry, but I don't think it's possible to get it to pick the pip installed version. In that algorithm above, I believe it's finding it like so:

• stubPath = Not found
• root folder = Found and marked as a local import
• extraPaths = Not found
• site-packages = Found and marked as a 3rd party import
• Pylance bundled = Not found.

The version in the root folder (since it's local) is chosen over the 3rd party version. Adding the site-packages folder to the extraPaths would mark it as local, but it wouldn't trump the version found in the workspace.

[bruce2233]

Thanks a lot.