VS Code - Rename symbol too slow for Python

Question

I'm having this refactoring issue where I try to rename a function through the option "Rename symbol", but it will take a long time. There's a "progress bar" moving endlessly below the document tab. It is taking around 5 min to do the renaming (also with variable names).

Is this a normal behaviour? I have about 10 python files in the same folder of around ~100 lines. BUT, I have a data folder (belonging to the project) with some 100,000 txt files (which is ignored by git, btw). Are this documents also taken into account? Is there a way to only rename in current file?

VS Code version: 1.25.0 Python extension: 2018.6.0

Thanks, Rafa

Answer 1

same problem here, it's apparently due to the Rope library (which is being used to do the refactoring) not fully supporting Python 3.

Here is an issue of people describing similar problems - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/52

Update: Using Jedi instead of Microsoft Python Language Server for intellisense seems to have fixed this problem for me. Just add the following entry to your settings.json file :

"python.jediEnabled": true