Python: Iteration Plan for November 2023

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in November 2023. 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 a "Create Project" command; issue; @cwebster-99

Environments

• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Use webworker for Conda & Windows registry when discovering environments; issue; @karrtikr
• 💪 Support .python-version for pyenv; issue; @karrtikr

Editing

N/A

Terminal

• Fix deactivate support and existing issues with Terminal env variable activation experiment; issue; @karrtikr @cwebster-99

REPL

• Detect when smart send won't work and provide a setting to turn off smart REPL send; issue; @anthonykim1
• Use shell integration to denote success/failure; issue; @anthonykim1
• 💪 Use shell integration to support previous command; issue; @anthonykim1

Debugging

• 🏃‍♀️ Use the ports API to ignore all ports; issue @paulacamargo25
• 🏃‍♀️ Use Python Debugger in pre-release builds of the core extension; issue @paulacamargo25
• Support string inputs for numerical values; issue @paulacamargo25
• Have the Run button when used to trigger debugging to use launch.json;issue @paulacamargo25
• Investigate contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View issue @paulacamargo25

Formatting

N/A

Linting

N/A

Testing

N/A

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

N/A

API

N/A

Engineering

• Adopt the "Report issue" integration; issue; @paulacamargo25
• New release of lsprotocol; issue; @karthiknadig
• Update lsprotocol to implement new LSP 3.18 features: issue; @karthiknadig

Python community

• ✋ Document dev process for WASI for CPython; @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ Implement a wasi.py build script for CPython; @brettcannon
• Get a new buildbot up and running for WASI; @brettcannon

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Deferred Items

• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Implement a dependency resolver with a customizable API; @brettcannon
• 🏃 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in settings.json; issue @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃 Adopt the proposed port attributes API in testing rewrite; issue @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ Pre-release of debugger extension using debugpy 1.5.1; issue @paulacamargo25
• ⬛ ‍Add Rust support to lsprotocol; issue; @karrtikr @karthiknadig
• 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; @karthiknadig
• Unify venvPath and venvFolders; issue
• ✋ Make tests work with symlinks; issue @eleanorjboyd