python.autoComplete.addBrackets not working

[r-owen]

VS Code version

1.63.1

Extension version

v2021.12.1559732655

OS type

macOS

OS version

11.6.1

Python distribution

Anaconda

Python version

3.8.8

Language server

Jedi

Expected behaviour

As per https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/settings-reference I expect to be able to disable adding brackets when auto-completing an exception class name or function name. That page documents the python.autoComplete.addBrackets setting for this purpose, but it does not show up in the standard settings editor and when I manually add it to the settings json file VSCode warns "Unknown Configuration Setting" and the setting is grayed out and has no effect.

Actual behaviour

I see no way to disable adding brackets when auto-completion an exception class name or function name. This is especially annoying for exception class names because in catch clauses parenthesis are forbidden.

Steps to reproduce

• Run VSCode 1.63.1 configured to use the Jedi language server (I have no idea if Jedi is relevant and this problem also appeared in the previous version of VSCode, and possibly earlier).
• Edit a Python file
• Type enough letters of Exception for autocomplete to suggest the word. Accept the automatic completion.
  VSCode adds closing parenthesis, which I don't want.
• The page https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/settings-reference says that python.autoComplete.addBrackets is a setting and it defaults to false. That sounds perfect, though it is worrisome that it defaults to false and I don't remember ever setting it to true.
• Bring up the standard settings editor and notice that no such setting exists.
• Edit the settings json file and add the setting: "python.autoComplete.addBrackets": false,
  Notice that VSCode complains "Unknown Configuration Setting" in the bar along the bottom, and the setting is grayed out and has no effect.

So two issues:

• How do I disable this unwanted cleverness now? Apparently the setting you document for this purpose is gone and the default for the replacement is to add the unwanted parenthesis.
• Your Python settings documentation page is outdated. Please update it.

Logs

Experiment 'pythonaa' is active
Experiment 'pythonTensorboardExperiment' is active
Experiment 'PythonPyTorchProfiler' is active
Experiment 'pythonDeprecatePythonPath' is active

~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/bin/conda info --json
~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/envs/local/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
/usr/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
/usr/bin/python3 ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
Python interpreter path: ~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/envs/local/bin/python
/usr/lib/python2.7 ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
/usr/local/bin/python3 ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/envs/eups-base/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/envs/lsst-scipipe-0.4.1/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/envs/square/bin/python ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/interpreterInfo.py
Starting Jedi language server.
~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/envs/local/bin/python -m flake8 --format=%(row)d,%(col)d,%(code).1s,%(code)s:%(text)s ~/UW/LSST/tsrepos/ts_ess_csc/python/lsst/ts/ess/csc/rpi_data_client.py
cwd: ~/UW/LSST/tsrepos/ts_ess_csc
~/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/bin/conda info --json
##########Linting Output - flake8##########
". /Users/rowen/UW/LSST/lsst_stack/miniconda/bin/activate && conda activate local && echo 'e8b39361-0157-4923-80e1-22d70d46dee6' && python /Users/rowen/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.12.1559732655/pythonFiles/printEnvVariables.py"

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[paulacamargo25]

We've open microsoft/vscode-docs#5030 for updating our documentation.

And for turning this feature off, is a duplicate of #15858.