Describe the Bug Pylance crashes at startup making Cursor unusable for Python programming. Steps to Reproduce Start cursor. Observe the crash. Sigh and sip coffee. The end of the error log looks like this: untitled:/Interactive-1.interactive.py at _0x6c33a1 (/Users/username/.cursor/extension…

Pylance not working

ravirahman August 12, 2025, 7:17am 5

Hi @edervieux, Pylance is not supported in Cursor. Instead, please use the Python extension by Anysphere.

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