What I have:
def get_candy():
return "candy"
What I want VS Code to automatically do:
def get_candy() -> str:
return "candy"
When I later call get_candy() the annotation box automatically includes -> str: anyhow, but it would be nice if it was included in the source code as well.
The annotation extensions I checked do not do this either, the just add the """ comments - ...""" stuff.
When you see the return type of functions that don't explicitly show a return type, that is most likely pylance. While pylance does guess at return types, (1) it's not perfect, especially for complicated functions, and (2) I have never seen (nor can I find) anything about making it automatically add return types.
Assuming you are using pylance, you can always make a feature request on pylance's issue repo.