Please turn off autocomplete completely. #25920

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2. eleanorjboyd commented on May 1, 2026

   

   Eleanor Boyd (eleanorjboyd)

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   Hi! Autocomplete/IntelliSense in Python files isn't controlled by the Python extension itself — it comes from either Pylance (code completions/IntelliSense) or GitHub Copilot (AI suggestions). Here's how to disable each:

   To disable Python IntelliSense completions (Pylance), add this to your settings.json:

   "[python]": {
       "editor.quickSuggestions": {
           "other": "off",
           "comments": "off",
           "strings": "off"
       },
       "editor.suggest.enabled": false
   }

   This disables the suggestion popup only for Python files, leaving other languages unaffected.

   To disable GitHub Copilot suggestions, add:

   "github.copilot.enable": {
       "*": false
   }

   Or you can disable/uninstall the Copilot extension entirely from the Extensions panel.

   Since this is a configuration question rather than a bug in the Python extension, I'll close this issue — but feel free to reopen if neither of the above solves it and you think there's something the Python extension is doing specifically. Hope that helps!
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5. Eleanor Boyd (eleanorjboyd)

   marked Please turn off autocomplete completely. #25919 as a duplicate of this issue on May 1, 2026