mkdir ~/build
cd ~/build
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/python-language-server.git
cd python-language-server/src/LanguageServer/Impl
dotnet build -c Release

((gethash "kind" contents) (gethash "value" contents)) ;; MarkupContent

;; cpbotha: with numpy functions, e.g. np.array for example,
;; kind=markdown and docs are in markdown, but in default
;; lsp-ui-20181031 this is rendered as plaintext see
;; https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specification#markupcontent

;; not only that, MS PyLS turns all spaces into   instances,
;; which we remove here this single additional cond clause fixes all
;; of this for hover

;; as if that was not enough: import pandas as pd - pandas is returned
;; with kind plaintext but contents markdown, whereas pd is returned
;; with kind markdown. fortunately, handling plaintext with the
;; markdown viewer still looks good, so here we are.
((member (gethash "kind" contents) '("markdown" "plaintext"))
 (replace-regexp-in-string " " " " (lsp-ui-doc--extract-marked-string contents)))

(use-package lsp-mode
  :ensure t
  :config

  ;; change nil to 't to enable logging of packets between emacs and the LS
  ;; this was invaluable for debugging communication with the MS Python Language Server
  ;; and comparing this with what vs.code is doing
  (setq lsp-print-io nil)

  ;; lsp-ui gives us the blue documentation boxes and the sidebar info
  (use-package lsp-ui
    :ensure t
    :config
    (setq lsp-ui-sideline-ignore-duplicate t)
    (add-hook 'lsp-mode-hook 'lsp-ui-mode))

  ;; make sure we have lsp-imenu everywhere we have LSP
  (require 'lsp-imenu)
  (add-hook 'lsp-after-open-hook 'lsp-enable-imenu)

  ;; install LSP company backend for LSP-driven completion
  (use-package company-lsp
    :ensure t
    :config
    (push 'company-lsp company-backends))

  ;; dir containing Microsoft.Python.LanguageServer.dll
  (setq ms-pyls-dir (expand-file-name "~/build/python-language-server/output/bin/Release/"))

  ;; this gets called when we do lsp-describe-thing-at-point in lsp-methods.el
  ;; we remove all of the " " entities that MS PYLS adds
  ;; this is mostly harmless for other language servers
  (defun render-markup-content (kind content)
    (message kind)
    (replace-regexp-in-string " " " " content))
  (setq lsp-render-markdown-markup-content #'render-markup-content)

  ;; it's crucial that we send the correct Python version to MS PYLS, else it returns no docs in many cases
  ;; furthermore, we send the current Python's (can be virtualenv) sys.path as searchPaths
  (defun get-python-ver-and-syspath (workspace-root)
    "return list with pyver-string and json-encoded list of python search paths."
    (let ((python (executable-find python-shell-interpreter))
          (init "from __future__ import print_function; import sys; import json;")
          (ver "print(\"%s.%s\" % (sys.version_info[0], sys.version_info[1]));")
          (sp (concat "sys.path.insert(0, '" workspace-root "'); print(json.dumps(sys.path))")))
      (with-temp-buffer
        (call-process python nil t nil "-c" (concat init ver sp))
        (subseq (split-string (buffer-string) "\n") 0 2))))

  ;; I based most of this on the vs.code implementation:
  ;; https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/blob/master/src/client/activation/languageServer/languageServer.ts#L219
  ;; (it still took quite a while to get right, but here we are!)
  (defun ms-pyls-extra-init-params (workspace)
    (destructuring-bind (pyver pysyspath) (get-python-ver-and-syspath (lsp--workspace-root workspace))
      `(:interpreter (
                      :properties (
                                   :InterpreterPath ,(executable-find python-shell-interpreter)
                                   ;; this database dir will be created if required
                                   :DatabasePath ,(expand-file-name (concat ms-pyls-dir "db/"))
                                   :Version ,pyver))
                     ;; preferredFormat "markdown" or "plaintext"
                     ;; experiment to find what works best -- over here mostly plaintext
                     :displayOptions (
                                      :preferredFormat "plaintext"
                                      :trimDocumentationLines :json-false
                                      :maxDocumentationLineLength 0
                                      :trimDocumentationText :json-false
                                      :maxDocumentationTextLength 0)
                     :searchPaths ,(json-read-from-string pysyspath))))  

  (lsp-define-stdio-client lsp-python "python"
                           #'ffip-get-project-root-directory
                           `("dotnet" ,(concat ms-pyls-dir "Microsoft.Python.LanguageServer.dll"))
                           :extra-init-params #'ms-pyls-extra-init-params)

  ;; lsp-python-enable is created by macro above 
  (add-hook 'python-mode-hook
            (lambda ()
              (lsp-python-enable)))