Feature request: expand pylance to support IPython syntax (magics, etc).

[ryan-feeley]

An IPython magic statement like %load_ext autoreload or %timeit f() is not valid pure python code, but it is valid IPython syntax, which one can use in the IPython shell or Jupyter notebook. These are popular development tools.

I believe would be useful enhancement for pylance to avoid giving errors on such IPython line and cell magics if the underlying file type in the editor is .ipy (standard extension for an IPython script file) or *.ipynb (jupyter notebook).

What is the current recommended workaround for such cases? Does one add a trailing # type: ignore to each line? Or does one break out of the zen of ipython and do something like

from IPython.core.getipython import get_ipython
get_ipython().run_line_magic('reload_ext', 'autoreload')

Is there any plan on the roadmap for pylance to be extended to IPython syntax?

[jakebailey]

I'm going to transfer this to an issue; we don't use discussions for feature requests or bug reports.

[jakebailey]

#1879