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openedon Apr 7, 2024
This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in April 2024. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we may not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.
Legend of annotations
| Mark | Description |
|---|---|
| 🏃♀️ | work in progress |
| ✋ | blocked task |
| 💪 | stretch goal for this iteration |
| 🔴 | missing issue reference |
| 🔵 | more investigation required to remove uncertainty |
| ⚫ | under discussion within the team |
| ⬛ | a large work item, larger than one iteration |
Getting started
- 🏃♀️ 💪 Investigate creating template repos for various project types; issue; @cwebster-99
Environments
- 🏃♀️ ⬛ Implement Environments view UI (aka Don's environment extension); issue; @karthiknadig
- 🏃♀️ Native locator for globally installed python and virtual environments; issue; @karthiknadig
Editing
N/A
Terminal
N/A
REPL
- 🏃♀️ Spike to find common ground between Python REPL and IW; issue; @anthonykim1 @amunger
- Prototype communication between custom Python REPL and Node; issue; @anthonykim1
- Create notebook controller in separate extension. issue; @anthonykim1 @amunger
- 🏃♀️ Add experimental setting and embed REPL controller code into the Python extension. issue; @anthonykim1
Debugging
- ✋ 🏃♀️ Improve "Run and debug" button support; issue; @paulacamargo25
- Remove copy of debugpy from Python extension; issue; @paulacamargo25
- Support editing custom variable in debug view; issue; @paulacamargo25
Testing
- Switch to named pipes for testing communication; issue; @eleanorjboyd @karthiknadig
- 🏃♀️ Fix remaining issues to remove test rewrite experiment code; issue @eleanorjboyd
- 🏃♀️ 💪 Dynamically handle test framework on activation; issue; @eleanorjboyd
- 🏃♀️ Plan custom args user study; issue; @eleanorjboyd @cwebster-99
vscode.dev
- 🏃♀️ Investigate WASI use cases and audience; issue; @cwebster-99
Documentation
N/A
API
- API
Python Projects; issue; @karthiknadig
Engineering
N/A
Python community
- PyCascades planning; @dawnwages @luabud
- 🏃♀️ PyCon US planning; @dawnwages
Deferred Items
- [ ] Add other shell types to core; [issue](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/155530); @anthonykim1 - [ ] 💪 Unify Python REPL triggers; [issue](https://github.com//issues/22242); @anthonykim1 - [ ] 🔵🏃♀️ Adopt proposed API for testing coverage feature; [issue](https://github.com//issues/22671); @eleanorjboyd - [ ] Investigate contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View; [issue](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-debugger/issues/110); @paulacamargo25 - [ ] 💪 Start refactoring code for custom args; [issue](https://github.com//issues/22670); @eleanorjboyd - [ ] 🏃♀️ ⬛ [Implement a dependency resolver with a customizable API](https://github.com/brettcannon/mousebender/issues/105); @brettcannon - [ ] 🏃 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in `settings.json`; [issue](https://github.com//issues/21845) @eleanorjboyd - [ ] Implement a Python traceback problem matcher in core - [ ] ✋ 🔴 Use `conda run` when debugging (waiting on the conda team to give us the go-ahead to rely on `conda run` so fundamentally); @paulacamargo25 - [ ] Investigate how we configure running and debugging - [ ] ✋ Write web tests; [issue](https://github.com//issues/19115); @karthiknadig - [ ] Unify `venvPath` and `venvFolders`; [issue](https://github.com//issues/1479) - [ ] 🔴 💪 Investigate a contribution point for workflow extensions; @karthiknadigSign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
