Add Enable Pyright Type Checking In Cursor as a Python TIL

README.md

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+- [Enable Pyright Type Checking In Cursor](python/enable-pyright-type-checking-in-cursor.md)
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python/enable-pyright-type-checking-in-cursor.md

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+# Enable Pyright Type Checking In Cursor
+
+In most ways [Cursor](https://cursor.com/), a clone of VS Code, behaves like VS
+Code and uses the same extensions as VS Code. It even offers to clone all your
+existing extensions and setup from VS Code when you first install it.
+
+However, the Pyright type checking setup that I had in VS Code stopped working
+when I opened up the same Python project in Cursor. It seems that to get Pyright
+to reliably work with forks of VS Code, you need to use a compatible fork like
+[Based Pyright](https://docs.basedpyright.com/latest/).
+
+Once I installed _Based Pyright_ from the extension marketplace, I was able to
+enable it in `.vscode/settings.json`:
+
+```json
+{
+    ...,
+    "basedpyright.analysis.typeCheckingMode": "basic"
+}
+```
+
+I may have needed to restart Cursor at this point, I cannot remember exactly.
+However, once this setup was in place the helpful type checking errors started
+appearing as red squiggles.