IntelliSense gets in the way when writing import module as ... statements #1994

This is more of a quality of life enchancement request. I believe the current Intellisense suggestions during python import statements could be improved.

Basically, my problem is during import ... as ... statements and similar. Taking specifically:

import numpy as np

The suggestions are understandably not helpful since Intellisense can't predict I will call it np or whatever I want to call it. However, it gives me suggestions such as NotImplementedError, presumeably because it contains an N and p. This happens with other packages too (i.e import pandas as pd).

The problem is that right after I type np, I want to click Return, which instead of going to the next line accepts the IntelliSense suggestion. I have to do something like click on the right arrow or first do a space to get out of IntelliSense if I want to go to the next line.

Unfortunately, suggestions to prevent that seem very broad. On StackOverflow the answer was to turn of snippet suggestions, but I think that was just for a specific question and wouldn't solve everything, since their import tensorflow as tf was getting IntelliSensed as a try/except block.

So I was wondering if it's possible for the autocomplete to be modified to not make those suggestions anymore. It seems unlikely that IntelliSense will be able to predict what a module reference will be called by a particular user.

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.24.0
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2108.5.0
• OS and version: Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.10
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.6.4
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | ...): conda
• Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: XXX

Actual behavior

import numpy as np

just after typing it suggests replacing np with NotImplementedError (this is just a specific example), not letting me Enter to the next line.

Expected behavior

On the import module as ... statement, I think IntelliSense shouldn't try to predict what the module will be renamed as.

Steps to reproduce:

Logs

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

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Output from Console under the Developer Tools panel (toggle Developer Tools on under Help)

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