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Analyze current path and log invalid items as soon as extension loads #1698
Description
See here #342 (comment)
Existence of the ; or ;; characters in the Path variable are known to result in the failure of the extension to load. If the extension fails to load please modify your paths to remove these characters.
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DonJayamanne commentedon Jun 15, 2018
Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
Currently I'm looking for paths that contain
;Based on feed back in Extension host terminated unexpectedly #342, that what has caused issues.
However I will not be checking for the existence of individual paths. I'm on the fence on this, as performing this checks could significantly slow down the load times of the extension.
If this is necessary we could have a flag that if turned on, will perform that check as well.
I.e. if extension fails to load, the user could turn on a setting (something similar to dump all diagnostics messages), causing the extension to be more strict with the checks.
brettcannon commentedon Jun 15, 2018
Didn't we have another issue where things didn't work if a path entry didn't exist?
DonJayamanne commentedon Jun 15, 2018
I think yes, Let me check,
DonJayamanne commentedon Jun 15, 2018
Couldn't find such an issue, proceeding without this check, should be easy to add that if necessary (on Monday). Will look through issues on Monday as well.
DonJayamanne commentedon Jun 15, 2018
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brettcannon commentedon Jun 15, 2018
Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne) "the Python extension not to load" or "to not load"; missing the "to".
Check the Path environment variable when ext loads (#1982)
Bug fix, check if code has been ignored (#2001)