Automplete not working when using Python versions 3.9 or 3.10

• Faker version: 12.0.0
• OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

OS versions

PS C:\Users\User\Guru> docker run -it --rm python:3.8 cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

PS C:\Users\User\Guru> docker run -it --rm python:3.9 cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

PS C:\Users\User\Guru> docker run -it --rm python:3.10 cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Tab autocomplete in python interactive shell unavailable when using Python versions 3.9 or 3.10.

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up python 3.9 or 3.10 with faker installed
   1. An easy way to try this out is with docker
   2. docker run -it --rm python:3.8 bash
2. Enter python shell with python
3. Type import faker
4. Type fake = faker.Faker()
5. Type fake.
6. Hit the tab button

Expected behavior

After I type in fake. and hit the tab key a few times, all available attributes of fake are shown. The very same ones you would get from dir(fake)

Python 3.8

PS C:\Users\User\Guru> docker run -it --rm python:3.8 bash
root@ac31d9ef666b:/# pip install faker
Collecting faker
Downloading Faker-12.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
    |████████████████████████████████| 1.5 MB 3.8 MB/s
Collecting python-dateutil>=2.4
Downloading python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (247 kB)
    |████████████████████████████████| 247 kB 22.1 MB/s
Collecting six>=1.5
Downloading six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Installing collected packages: six, python-dateutil, faker
Successfully installed faker-12.0.0 python-dateutil-2.8.2 six-1.16.0
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.4; however, version 22.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/local/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
root@ac31d9ef666b:/# python
Python 3.8.12 (default, Jan 29 2022, 05:06:10)
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import faker
>>> fake = faker.Faker()
>>> fake.  # This is where I hit the tab button a few times
Display all 277 possibilities? (y or n)
fake.aba(                             fake.current_country_code(            fake.get_formatter(                   fake.mac_processor(                   fake.pylist(                          fake.street_name(
fake.add_provider(                    fake.date(                            fake.get_providers(                   fake.md5(                             fake.pyset(                           fake.street_suffix(
fake.address(                         fake.date_between(                    fake.hex_color(                       fake.military_apo(                    fake.pystr(                           fake.suffix(
fake.administrative_unit(             fake.date_between_dates(              fake.hexify(                          fake.military_dpo(                    fake.pystr_format(                    fake.suffix_female(
fake.am_pm(                           fake.date_object(                     fake.hostname(                        fake.military_ship(                   fake.pystruct(                        fake.suffix_male(
fake.android_platform_token(          fake.date_of_birth(                   fake.http_method(                     fake.military_state(                  fake.pytimezone(                      fake.suffix_nonbinary(
fake.ascii_company_email(             fake.date_this_century(               fake.iana_id(                         fake.mime_type(                       fake.pytuple(                         fake.swift(
fake.ascii_email(                     fake.date_this_decade(                fake.iban(                            fake.month(                           fake.random                           fake.swift11(
fake.ascii_free_email(                fake.date_this_month(                 fake.image(                           fake.month_name(                      fake.random_choices(                  fake.swift8(
fake.ascii_safe_email(                fake.date_this_year(                  fake.image_url(                       fake.msisdn(                          fake.random_digit(                    fake.tar(
fake.bank_country(                    fake.date_time(                       fake.internet_explorer(               fake.name(                            fake.random_digit_not_null(           fake.text(
fake.bban(                            fake.date_time_ad(                    fake.invalid_ssn(                     fake.name_female(                     fake.random_digit_not_null_or_empty(  fake.texts(
fake.binary(                          fake.date_time_between(               fake.ios_platform_token(              fake.name_male(                       fake.random_digit_or_empty(           fake.time(
fake.boolean(                         fake.date_time_between_dates(         fake.ipv4(                            fake.name_nonbinary(                  fake.random_element(                  fake.time_delta(
fake.bothify(                         fake.date_time_this_century(          fake.ipv4_network_class(              fake.nic_handle(                      fake.random_elements(                 fake.time_object(
fake.bs(                              fake.date_time_this_decade(           fake.ipv4_private(                    fake.nic_handles(                     fake.random_int(                      fake.time_series(
fake.building_number(                 fake.date_time_this_month(            fake.ipv4_public(                     fake.null_boolean(                    fake.random_letter(                   fake.timezone(
fake.cache_pattern                    fake.date_time_this_year(             fake.ipv6(                            fake.numerify(                        fake.random_letters(                  fake.tld(
fake.catch_phrase(                    fake.day_of_month(                    fake.isbn10(                          fake.opera(                           fake.random_lowercase_letter(         fake.tsv(
fake.century(                         fake.day_of_week(                     fake.isbn13(                          fake.paragraph(                       fake.random_number(                   fake.unique
fake.chrome(                          fake.del_arguments(                   fake.iso8601(                         fake.paragraphs(                      fake.random_sample(                   fake.unix_device(
fake.city(                            fake.dga(                             fake.items(                           fake.parse(                           fake.random_uppercase_letter(         fake.unix_partition(
fake.city_prefix(                     fake.domain_name(                     fake.itin(                            fake.password(                        fake.randomize_nb_elements(           fake.unix_time(
fake.city_suffix(                     fake.domain_word(                     fake.job(                             fake.past_date(                       fake.rgb_color(                       fake.upc_a(
fake.color(                           fake.dsv(                             fake.json(                            fake.past_datetime(                   fake.rgb_css_color(                   fake.upc_e(
fake.color_name(                      fake.ean(                             fake.language_code(                   fake.phone_number(                    fake.ripe_id(                         fake.uri(
fake.company(                         fake.ean13(                           fake.language_name(                   fake.port_number(                     fake.safari(                          fake.uri_extension(
fake.company_email(                   fake.ean8(                            fake.last_name(                       fake.postalcode(                      fake.safe_color_name(                 fake.uri_page(
fake.company_suffix(                  fake.ein(                             fake.last_name_female(                fake.postalcode_in_state(             fake.safe_domain_name(                fake.uri_path(
fake.coordinate(                      fake.email(                           fake.last_name_male(                  fake.postalcode_plus4(                fake.safe_email(                      fake.url(
fake.country(                         fake.factories                        fake.last_name_nonbinary(             fake.postcode(                        fake.safe_hex_color(                  fake.user_agent(
fake.country_calling_code(            fake.file_extension(                  fake.latitude(                        fake.postcode_in_state(               fake.secondary_address(               fake.user_name(
fake.country_code(                    fake.file_name(                       fake.latlng(                          fake.prefix(                          fake.seed                             fake.uuid4(
fake.credit_card_expire(              fake.file_path(                       fake.lexify(                          fake.prefix_female(                   fake.seed_instance(                   fake.weights
fake.credit_card_full(                fake.firefox(                         fake.license_plate(                   fake.prefix_male(                     fake.seed_locale(                     fake.windows_platform_token(
fake.credit_card_number(              fake.first_name(                      fake.linux_platform_token(            fake.prefix_nonbinary(                fake.sentence(                        fake.word(
fake.credit_card_provider(            fake.first_name_female(               fake.linux_processor(                 fake.pricetag(                        fake.sentences(                       fake.words(
fake.credit_card_security_code(       fake.first_name_male(                 fake.local_latlng(                    fake.profile(                         fake.set_arguments(                   fake.year(
fake.cryptocurrency(                  fake.first_name_nonbinary(            fake.locale(                          fake.provider(                        fake.set_formatter(                   fake.zip(
fake.cryptocurrency_code(             fake.fixed_width(                     fake.locales                          fake.providers                        fake.sha1(                            fake.zipcode(
fake.cryptocurrency_name(             fake.format(                          fake.localized_ean(                   fake.psv(                             fake.sha256(                          fake.zipcode_in_state(
fake.csv(                             fake.free_email(                      fake.localized_ean13(                 fake.pybool(                          fake.simple_profile(                  fake.zipcode_plus4(
fake.currency(                        fake.free_email_domain(               fake.localized_ean8(                  fake.pydecimal(                       fake.slug(
fake.currency_code(                   fake.future_date(                     fake.location_on_land(                fake.pydict(                          fake.ssn(
fake.currency_name(                   fake.future_datetime(                 fake.longitude(                       fake.pyfloat(                         fake.state(
fake.currency_symbol(                 fake.generator_attrs                  fake.mac_address(                     fake.pyint(                           fake.state_abbr(
fake.current_country(                 fake.get_arguments(                   fake.mac_platform_token(              fake.pyiterable(                      fake.street_address(

Actual behavior

Nothing is shown. The examples below show dir(fake). It’s hard to show me tabbing after I type in fake., but trust me, after I type in fake. and hit the tab key a couple of times, nothing happens.

Python 3.9

PS C:\Users\User\Guru> docker run -it --rm python:3.9 bash
root@f5111bad0450:/# pip install faker
Collecting faker
Downloading Faker-12.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
    |████████████████████████████████| 1.5 MB 4.6 MB/s
Collecting python-dateutil>=2.4
Downloading python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (247 kB)
    |████████████████████████████████| 247 kB 20.8 MB/s
Collecting six>=1.5
Downloading six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Installing collected packages: six, python-dateutil, faker
Successfully installed faker-12.0.0 python-dateutil-2.8.2 six-1.16.0
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.4; however, version 22.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/local/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
root@f5111bad0450:/# python
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 29 2022, 04:10:57)
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import faker
>>> fake = faker.Faker()
>>> dir(fake)
['__annotations__', '__class__', '__deepcopy__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattr__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setstate__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_factories', '_factory_map', '_locales', '_map_provider_method', '_select_factory', '_unique_proxy', '_weights', 'aba', 'add_provider', 'address', 'administrative_unit', 'am_pm', 'android_platform_token', 'ascii_company_email', 'ascii_email', 'ascii_free_email', 'ascii_safe_email', 'bank_country', 'bban', 'binary', 'boolean', 'bothify', 'bs', 'building_number', 'cache_pattern', 'catch_phrase', 'century', 'chrome', 'city', 'city_prefix', 'city_suffix', 'color', 'color_name', 'company', 'company_email', 'company_suffix', 'coordinate', 'country', 'country_calling_code', 'country_code', 'credit_card_expire', 'credit_card_full', 'credit_card_number', 'credit_card_provider', 'credit_card_security_code', 'cryptocurrency', 'cryptocurrency_code', 'cryptocurrency_name', 'csv', 'currency', 'currency_code', 'currency_name', 'currency_symbol', 'current_country', 'current_country_code', 'date', 'date_between', 'date_between_dates', 'date_object', 'date_of_birth', 'date_this_century', 'date_this_decade', 'date_this_month', 'date_this_year', 'date_time', 'date_time_ad', 'date_time_between', 'date_time_between_dates', 'date_time_this_century', 'date_time_this_decade', 'date_time_this_month', 'date_time_this_year', 'day_of_month', 'day_of_week', 'del_arguments', 'dga', 'domain_name', 'domain_word', 'dsv', 'ean', 'ean13', 'ean8', 'ein', 'email', 'factories', 'file_extension', 'file_name', 'file_path', 'firefox', 'first_name', 'first_name_female', 'first_name_male', 'first_name_nonbinary', 'fixed_width', 'format', 'free_email', 'free_email_domain', 'future_date', 'future_datetime', 'generator_attrs', 'get_arguments', 'get_formatter', 'get_providers', 'hex_color', 'hexify', 'hostname', 'http_method', 'iana_id', 'iban', 'image', 'image_url', 'internet_explorer', 'invalid_ssn', 'ios_platform_token', 'ipv4', 'ipv4_network_class', 'ipv4_private', 'ipv4_public', 'ipv6', 'isbn10', 'isbn13', 'iso8601', 'items', 'itin', 'job', 'json', 'language_code', 'language_name', 'last_name', 'last_name_female', 'last_name_male', 'last_name_nonbinary', 'latitude', 'latlng', 'lexify', 'license_plate', 'linux_platform_token', 'linux_processor', 'local_latlng', 'locale', 'locales', 'localized_ean', 'localized_ean13', 'localized_ean8', 'location_on_land', 'longitude', 'mac_address', 'mac_platform_token', 'mac_processor', 'md5', 'military_apo', 'military_dpo', 'military_ship', 'military_state', 'mime_type', 'month', 'month_name', 'msisdn', 'name', 'name_female', 'name_male', 'name_nonbinary', 'nic_handle', 'nic_handles', 'null_boolean', 'numerify', 'opera', 'paragraph', 'paragraphs', 'parse', 'password', 'past_date', 'past_datetime', 'phone_number', 'port_number', 'postalcode', 'postalcode_in_state', 'postalcode_plus4', 'postcode', 'postcode_in_state', 'prefix', 'prefix_female', 'prefix_male', 'prefix_nonbinary', 'pricetag', 'profile', 'provider', 'providers', 'psv', 'pybool', 'pydecimal', 'pydict', 'pyfloat', 'pyint', 'pyiterable', 'pylist', 'pyset', 'pystr', 'pystr_format', 'pystruct', 'pytimezone', 'pytuple', 'random', 'random_choices', 'random_digit', 'random_digit_not_null', 'random_digit_not_null_or_empty', 'random_digit_or_empty', 'random_element', 'random_elements', 'random_int', 'random_letter', 'random_letters', 'random_lowercase_letter', 'random_number', 'random_sample', 'random_uppercase_letter', 'randomize_nb_elements', 'rgb_color', 'rgb_css_color', 'ripe_id', 'safari', 'safe_color_name', 'safe_domain_name', 'safe_email', 'safe_hex_color', 'secondary_address', 'seed', 'seed_instance', 'seed_locale', 'sentence', 'sentences', 'set_arguments', 'set_formatter', 'sha1', 'sha256', 'simple_profile', 'slug', 'ssn', 'state', 'state_abbr', 'street_address', 'street_name', 'street_suffix', 'suffix', 'suffix_female', 'suffix_male', 'suffix_nonbinary', 'swift', 'swift11', 'swift8', 'tar', 'text', 'texts', 'time', 'time_delta', 'time_object', 'time_series', 'timezone', 'tld', 'tsv', 'unique', 'unix_device', 'unix_partition', 'unix_time', 'upc_a', 'upc_e', 'uri', 'uri_extension', 'uri_page', 'uri_path', 'url', 'user_agent', 'user_name', 'uuid4', 'weights', 'windows_platform_token', 'word', 'words', 'year', 'zip', 'zipcode', 'zipcode_in_state', 'zipcode_plus4']
>>> fake.  # Trust me, I hit the tab button a few times here and nothing happened

Python 3.10

PS C:\Users\User\Guru> docker run -it --rm python:3.10 bash
root@f4f9049d3170:/# pip install faker
Collecting faker
Downloading Faker-12.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
    |████████████████████████████████| 1.5 MB 4.9 MB/s
Collecting python-dateutil>=2.4
Downloading python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (247 kB)
    |████████████████████████████████| 247 kB 16.4 MB/s
Collecting six>=1.5
Downloading six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Installing collected packages: six, python-dateutil, faker
Successfully installed faker-12.0.0 python-dateutil-2.8.2 six-1.16.0
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.4; however, version 22.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/local/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
root@f4f9049d3170:/# python
Python 3.10.2 (main, Jan 29 2022, 02:41:17) [GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import faker
>>> fake = faker.Faker()
>>> dir(fake)
['__annotations__', '__class__', '__deepcopy__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattr__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setstate__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_factories', '_factory_map', '_locales', '_map_provider_method', '_select_factory', '_unique_proxy', '_weights', 'aba', 'add_provider', 'address', 'administrative_unit', 'am_pm', 'android_platform_token', 'ascii_company_email', 'ascii_email', 'ascii_free_email', 'ascii_safe_email', 'bank_country', 'bban', 'binary', 'boolean', 'bothify', 'bs', 'building_number', 'cache_pattern', 'catch_phrase', 'century', 'chrome', 'city', 'city_prefix', 'city_suffix', 'color', 'color_name', 'company', 'company_email', 'company_suffix', 'coordinate', 'country', 'country_calling_code', 'country_code', 'credit_card_expire', 'credit_card_full', 'credit_card_number', 'credit_card_provider', 'credit_card_security_code', 'cryptocurrency', 'cryptocurrency_code', 'cryptocurrency_name', 'csv', 'currency', 'currency_code', 'currency_name', 'currency_symbol', 'current_country', 'current_country_code', 'date', 'date_between', 'date_between_dates', 'date_object', 'date_of_birth', 'date_this_century', 'date_this_decade', 'date_this_month', 'date_this_year', 'date_time', 'date_time_ad', 'date_time_between', 'date_time_between_dates', 'date_time_this_century', 'date_time_this_decade', 'date_time_this_month', 'date_time_this_year', 'day_of_month', 'day_of_week', 'del_arguments', 'dga', 'domain_name', 'domain_word', 'dsv', 'ean', 'ean13', 'ean8', 'ein', 'email', 'factories', 'file_extension', 'file_name', 'file_path', 'firefox', 'first_name', 'first_name_female', 'first_name_male', 'first_name_nonbinary', 'fixed_width', 'format', 'free_email', 'free_email_domain', 'future_date', 'future_datetime', 'generator_attrs', 'get_arguments', 'get_formatter', 'get_providers', 'hex_color', 'hexify', 'hostname', 'http_method', 'iana_id', 'iban', 'image', 'image_url', 'internet_explorer', 'invalid_ssn', 'ios_platform_token', 'ipv4', 'ipv4_network_class', 'ipv4_private', 'ipv4_public', 'ipv6', 'isbn10', 'isbn13', 'iso8601', 'items', 'itin', 'job', 'json', 'language_code', 'language_name', 'last_name', 'last_name_female', 'last_name_male', 'last_name_nonbinary', 'latitude', 'latlng', 'lexify', 'license_plate', 'linux_platform_token', 'linux_processor', 'local_latlng', 'locale', 'locales', 'localized_ean', 'localized_ean13', 'localized_ean8', 'location_on_land', 'longitude', 'mac_address', 'mac_platform_token', 'mac_processor', 'md5', 'military_apo', 'military_dpo', 'military_ship', 'military_state', 'mime_type', 'month', 'month_name', 'msisdn', 'name', 'name_female', 'name_male', 'name_nonbinary', 'nic_handle', 'nic_handles', 'null_boolean', 'numerify', 'opera', 'paragraph', 'paragraphs', 'parse', 'password', 'past_date', 'past_datetime', 'phone_number', 'port_number', 'postalcode', 'postalcode_in_state', 'postalcode_plus4', 'postcode', 'postcode_in_state', 'prefix', 'prefix_female', 'prefix_male', 'prefix_nonbinary', 'pricetag', 'profile', 'provider', 'providers', 'psv', 'pybool', 'pydecimal', 'pydict', 'pyfloat', 'pyint', 'pyiterable', 'pylist', 'pyset', 'pystr', 'pystr_format', 'pystruct', 'pytimezone', 'pytuple', 'random', 'random_choices', 'random_digit', 'random_digit_not_null', 'random_digit_not_null_or_empty', 'random_digit_or_empty', 'random_element', 'random_elements', 'random_int', 'random_letter', 'random_letters', 'random_lowercase_letter', 'random_number', 'random_sample', 'random_uppercase_letter', 'randomize_nb_elements', 'rgb_color', 'rgb_css_color', 'ripe_id', 'safari', 'safe_color_name', 'safe_domain_name', 'safe_email', 'safe_hex_color', 'secondary_address', 'seed', 'seed_instance', 'seed_locale', 'sentence', 'sentences', 'set_arguments', 'set_formatter', 'sha1', 'sha256', 'simple_profile', 'slug', 'ssn', 'state', 'state_abbr', 'street_address', 'street_name', 'street_suffix', 'suffix', 'suffix_female', 'suffix_male', 'suffix_nonbinary', 'swift', 'swift11', 'swift8', 'tar', 'text', 'texts', 'time', 'time_delta', 'time_object', 'time_series', 'timezone', 'tld', 'tsv', 'unique', 'unix_device', 'unix_partition', 'unix_time', 'upc_a', 'upc_e', 'uri', 'uri_extension', 'uri_page', 'uri_path', 'url', 'user_agent', 'user_name', 'uuid4', 'weights', 'windows_platform_token', 'word', 'words', 'year', 'zip', 'zipcode', 'zipcode_in_state', 'zipcode_plus4']
>>> fake.  # Trust me, I hit the tab button a few times here and nothing happened

Notes

Just to be thorough and prove that autocomplete works as expected in Python 3.9 and 3.10, here’s me proving that:

Python 3.9

PS C:\Users\User\Guru> docker run -it --rm python:3.9
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 29 2022, 04:10:57)
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class Foo:
...     a = "this"
...     b = "that"
...     c = "or"
...     d = "other"
...
>>> foo = Foo()
>>> foo.
foo.a  foo.b  foo.c  foo.d
>>> foo.

Python 3.10

PS C:\Users\User\Guru> docker run -it --rm python:3.10
Python 3.10.2 (main, Jan 29 2022, 02:41:17) [GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class Foo:
...     a = "this"
...     b = "that"
...     c = "or"
...     d = "other"
...
>>> foo = Foo()
>>> foo.
foo.a  foo.b  foo.c  foo.d
>>> foo.

[tony]

This is a night and day difference.

Environment

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on WSL2
• vim with coc.nvim + coc-pyright
• Python 3.11.0
• Faker version: trunk @ bc56a8f
• https://github.com/KaylaHood/faker-stubs @ 77d25e7

Instructions

mkdir -p ~/projects/python; cd ~/projects/python
git clone https://github.com/joke2k/faker
git clone https://github.com/KaylaHood/faker-stubs

cd ~/projects/python/faker
virtualenv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
python ../faker-stubs/generate_stub.py

You should now see this with git status:

❯ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        faker/proxy.pyi

If the faker/proxy.pyi stub is there, you will be able to see typings if you open any file, e.g. tests/test_proxy.py

Before (via here)

from faker import Faker

def test_faker(faker: Faker):
    assert isinstance(faker.name(), str)

With faker-stubs @ 77d25e7

Locale / faker constructor

re: locales

from faker import Faker

fake = Faker(locale="en")

Expected no arguments to “Faker” constructor (Pyright reportGeneralTypeIssues)

If the constructor itself allowed locale, we’d get around this particular one. Though we wouldn’t have locale-specific ones.

[KaylaHood]

I’m just commenting to say that I’d greatly appreciate this feature as well. I’d imagine it would be trivial to add a mypy stub or similar to declare all of the many provider’s attributes as members of the base Faker class. I’m trying to write the stub file myself, I’ll try to remember to report back if it works.