Pylance Workspace Folder Scope

Scopes Pylance analysis to each workspace folder and disables it when a folder exceeds a file count threshold.

What it does

Sets python.analysis.exclude at the Workspace Folder level:
- If the folder has more than N .py files (default 200) → ["**"] which disables analysis for that folder.
- Otherwise → ["**", "!**/*.py"] plus any patterns you configure in includePatterns, which scopes analysis to that folder only.
Optionally forces python.analysis.typeCheckingMode = "strict" per folder.

Multi-root workspaces can cause cross-folder crawling. Large folders can also slow you down. This guards both issues.

pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.enable (default true)
pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.maxFiles (default 200)
pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.includePatterns (default ["!**/*.py"])
- Add more like !**/*.pyi, !**/*.ipynb
pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.excludeDirs
- Default: .venv, venv, __pycache__, .git, .tox, .mypy_cache, .pytest_cache, site-packages
pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.keepStrict (default true)
pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.notificationMode (default toast)
- Options: toast, statusbar, problems, none
pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.showEnableToast (default true)
pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.showDisableToast (default true)
pylanceWorkspaceFolderScope.toastSuppressForMinutes (default 5)

The extension activates only when there are Python files in the workspace or a Python file is opened:

"activationEvents": [
  "workspaceContains:**/*.py",
  "onLanguage:python"
]