error "time" is not defined: UndefinedVariable

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def time_stats(df):
    start_time = time.time()

When I run this code in VS Code it does run fine, however "time" is underlined:

and if I hover with the mouse there, I see an error message from PyLance that states:

"time" is not defined: UndefinedVariable

I did import time at the start of my file though and couldn't find clues in https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.time.

I guess this is not a big issue but since I'm learning I would love to have some advice so that I can avoid bad habits from the start.

Sounds like a VS Code or PyLance problem, not so much Python. You may want to add the `VS Code` and/or [pylance] tags to your question, so people selecting on those tagsmay find your question more easily. — 9769953, Jun 22 '21 at 15:07
Apparently PyLance has a lot of problems with this, google autocompleted *"pylance no"* to *"pylance not detecting imports"* — Nick is tired, Jun 22 '21 at 15:09
Does this answer your question? [VSCode settings for Pylance](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65200732/vscode-settings-for-pylance) (and try to add your python libs directory to the list perhaps?) — Nick is tired, Jun 22 '21 at 15:11
Thank you all! I'm glad to hear that it's probably not something to do with my code. — maud, Jun 22 '21 at 15:45
@maud Could you run your code correctly? And can you enable flake8 linter? You can add this in your settings.json file: "python.linting.flake8Enabled": true, — Steven-MSFT, Jun 23 '21 at 03:23
@maud And could you reload your VScode to have a try? Thanks a lot. — Steven-MSFT, Jun 23 '21 at 03:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '21 at 16:14

your code looks fine. few things you can check

Try disabling pylance.
if you are using python linters(pylint) then you might need to disable that too. check this Github issue for more details.

python.linting.pylintEnabled": false use this code to disable pylint in your setting.json file.

Let me know if this helps.

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