Why doesn't highlighted text show what data type the highlighted text is?

Question

I'm using pyton with VSC and ran into a problem while watching a tutorial; when highlighting a number in brackets, the data type doesn't show up, while it does in the tutorial. IE: when higlighting 4.5 in print(4.5) , it should say 4.5: float in a popup, but that doesn't happen. Can anybody help me?

Answer 1

Visual Studio Code does not have automatic intellisense, you need to download a language specific extention to use it.
Steps to download:

1. open the extentions menu located on the left toolbar (ctrl-shift-x).
2. search for python.
3. click install on the top result.
4. (optional) restart VSC, I don't know if it is necessary, but better safe then sorry.

I hope this fixes your problem :) .

Edit: I just checked, and after installing the extention will say something along the lines of 'reload to enable extention', if it does not, it doesn't need it. Otherwise, just click the text that says that.