Go to Reference or Go to Symbol Broken in Python

[rbala]

Describe the Bug

I use uv within my python project and the latest update seems to have broken the F12 and Shfit + F12 hotkeys to go to a symbol definition or its references. The outline section is also empty for the python file, which must show function and class outlines.

Steps to Reproduce

Just create a simple workspace with python file and set the python interpreter to the .venv/bin/python created using uv

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.2
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: faa03b17cce93e8a80b7d62d57f5eda6bb6ab9f0
Date: 2025-07-07T06:08:52.104Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

[ravirahman]

Hi @rbala, which Python extensions do you have installed? You’ll need the Anysphere Python extension for LSP support:

When configuring this plugin, it should ask to import Pylance settings. If this popup didn’t show, could you run this command from the command palette (cmd/ctrl-shift-p)?

[rbala]

@ravirahman I did that. However the outline is still empty. The cursor keeps saying ms-python is not installed while it is installed

When i try to import pylance it says pylanceSettings not found

Infact when i try to restart the language server, it throws restartLanguageServer not found

[rbala]

Removing all cache and extensions and reinstalling cursor and the python extensions finally worked. But, i lost all conversations that was stored as a result. There must be a better way to handle these issues