Could we have relative extraPaths, or specify different extraPaths for Windows and Linux?

[Saltsmart]

We use Windows PC and Linux server at the same time.
There are several projects that import the same utils. These utils are not intended to be installed so we place them in the root project directory, both for Windows/Linux.

We want to have only one config file for both platforms, so it could be managed by git.

If extraPaths supports relative paths, it would be:

"extraPaths": ["../utils"]

However, we have test the above but it doesn't work.

Alternatively, we hope extraPaths could be specified for different platforms (just as uv could resolve packages for different OS.), for example:

"extraPaths": 
{
    "Windows": "C:\\Projects\\utils",
    "Linux": "~/Projects/utils"
}

We have checked pythonPlatform, it behaves different from what we need.

[erictraut]

You can create separate config files for Windows and Linux and use the appropriate one when invoking pyright (using the -p option). If you do this, I recommend creating a common config file and using the extends mechanism to reference the common configuration from the platform-specific configurations.

[Saltsmart]

Thanks for your advice!

We have considered: platform-specified config file must be excluded by git, and additionally, a platform-specified CLI is needed for different -p to use Pyright.

It would be better if relative extraPaths is supported, or could a meta-option platformSpec be created to change the behaviour of Pyright since it could detect the current platform?

{
    ...  // default behaviour
    "platformSpec": {  // configs specified by current platform
        "Windows": {  // if current platform is Windows
            "extraPaths": ["C:\\Projects\\utils"],
            "stubPath": "E:\\Check Standards\\Python Stubs",
            "executionEnvironments": [...], // configs specified by different portions
        },
        "Linux": {  // if current platform is Linux
            "extraPaths": ["~/Projects/utils"],
            "stubPath": "/path/to/stubs",
            "executionEnvironments": [...], // configs specified by different portions
        },
    }
}

We may could contribute for this.

[erictraut]

This sounds very niche, so it's probably not something we'd be interested in implementing in pyright.