🔒 How to get proper IntelliSense for pandas `.str` methods (e.g., `.slice`, `.strip`)?

[faint dagger]

In pandas, why does IntelliSense show .slice as (function) slice: Any when using the string accessor?

Here’s a minimal example:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({"Prompt": ["hello world", "another string"]})

# prompts is a pandas Series of strings
prompts: pd.Series = df["Prompt"]

# Shorten prompts to the first 50 characters and strip whitespace
prompts_truncated = prompts.str.slice(0, 50).str.strip()

Here’s an example form documentation:

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.Series.str.html#pandas.Series.str

[placid lichen]

@faint dagger

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[faint dagger]

Ok this fixed the IntelliSense

pip install pandas-stubs

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