Python: Iteration Plan for July 2023

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in July 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

• Draft artifact for our approach to packaging; issue; @cwebster-99

Environments

• 🏃 Investigate how to handle Create Environment when called with a preexisting environment; issue; @karthiknadig
• Get test suite passing on Codespaces issue; @anthonykim1
• 🏃 Investigate potential uses of the WASI build of CPython (and maybe MicroPython); issue; @cwebster-99

Editing

N/A

LSP

• Create pipeline templates for lsprotocol; issue; @karthiknadig

Terminal

• Bring back dedicated terminal usage to the Run button; issue @karrtikr

REPL

• ⬛ Investigate the state of REPL support in the extension; issue @anthonykim1

Debugging

• Implement configuration that prompts users for arguments; issue @paulacamargo25
• Investigate reported failures of attaching the debugger to a running process; issue @paulacamargo25
• 🏃‍♀️ Pre-release of debugger extension using debugpy 1.5.1; issue @paulacamargo25

Formatting

N/A

Linting

N/A

Testing

• 🏃‍♀️ Triage open testing issues post-rewrite; issue @eleanorjboyd
• Have pytest discovery continue in the face of errors; issue @eleanorjboyd

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

• 🏃 FastAPI tutorial; issue; @luabud @cwebster-99 @minsa110

API

• Create an npm types package for public extension API; issue @karrtikr

Engineering

• Move the dev container over to an MCR image; issue @anthonykim1

Python community

• Document dev process for WASI for CPython; @brettcannon
• ⬛ 🏃‍ Enriched/strict package.metadata parsing; PR; @brettcannon

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Deferred Items

• Support .python-version for pyenv; issue; @karrtikr
• ⬛ ‍Add Rust support to lsprotocol; issue; @karrtikr @karthiknadig
  • Familiarize with LSP and Rust plugin for lsprotocol; issue; @karrtikr
• Incorporate fixes from VS Code regarding Environment collection API; issue; @karrtikr
• ✋ Rollout terminal auto-activation on Insiders; issue; @cwebster-99 @karrtikr
• Investigate using webworker for Python discovery; @karrtikr
• 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