I am working with Pandas DataFrames in .py files. I would like to have column name autocompletions in VSCode, similar to how it works with .ipynb files. I remember reading I could subclass a DataFrame to achieve this. The post showed a code snippet similar to the following: class TypedDataFrame(pd.DataFrame): day: int country: str weather: str df_path: str = "..." df: TypedDataFrame = pd.read_csv(df_path, delimiter=",") # now typing "df[" would pull up autocomplete suggestions for the above annotations I haven't been able to find the post again. Most of the questions relating this issue date back to 2023 and suggest using Pandera, StaticFrame and other typing libraries, so I think they may be updated now. Is there a way to provide type hinting using only Pandas in 2025? Continue reading...
