Python: Iteration Plan for January 2025

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in January 2025. 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

Summary for plan reading

• Environments Extension features and bugs: @karthiknadig
• Copilot Offline Eval Python testcases; @karthiknadig
• Terminal Environment Variable API and Terminal Shell Type API: @anthonykim1
• Python REPL bugs and Jupyter plug; @anthonykim1
• Investigate gaps for no config debugging: @eleanorjboyd
• Finish up pytest-plugin support and testing related bugs related issues: @eleanorjboyd

Environments

• Address bugs with Environments Extension; issues ; @karthiknadig

Terminal

• ✋ cpython upstream fix to adjust terminal cursor to correct place; issue; @anthonykim1
• Ensure Python Terminal Shell Integration setting is effective without reloading; issue; @anthonykim1
• Gitbash terminal not opening to desired workspace folder. issue; @anthonykim1

REPL

• Show notification to suggest Native REPL when "python" is typed in terminal; issue; @anthonykim1

Testing

• Bugs on Python Testing
  • Regression during transition from old to new test infrastructure; ; @eleanorjboyd
  • Ensure test discovery is cancellable; issue ; @eleanorjboyd
  • Test auto-discovery issues; issue; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• Try top pytest plugins and ensure their compatability python testing issue; @eleanorjboyd

Debugger

• No config debugging support using debugpy; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• Debug extension bugs; query; @eleanorjboyd

Engineering

N/A

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Deferred Items

• 🏃‍♀️ ✋ Contribute to the coverage.py package through surfacing branch coverage; issue; @eleanorjboyd

• 💪 Show "install Jupyter extension" only if users have rich output in REPL; issue; @anthonykim1

• Formalize Python project/packages structure and content for opinionated flow; issue; @cwebster-99 @karthiknadig

• ⬛ Create content for AI tutorial; issue; @cwebster-99 @luabud

• 💪 Support interrupt for Native REPL on Windows; issue; @anthonykim1

• 💪 Start refactoring code for custom args; issue; @eleanorjboyd

• 🏃 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in settings.json; issue @eleanorjboyd

• Unify venvPath and venvFolders; issue

• Switch to using unittest.main and a custom runner for unittest; issue; @eleanorjboyd

• Understand the problem for git pre-commit hooks; issue @anthonykim1

• 💪 Run in Python REPL for Chat; issue; @anthonykim1