Python: Iteration Plan for September 2023 #21968

This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in September 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.

Getting started

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Environments

• Implement delete and re-create for conda; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• 🏃‍♂️ Implement implicit trigger points for Create Environment; issue ; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• ⬛ 🏃‍♀️ Use webworker for Conda & Windows registry when discovering environments; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Write a wiki page for monorepo setups; issue; Luciana Abud (@luabud)

Editing

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LSP

• 🏃‍♂️ LSP support to 3rd-parties; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Terminal

• 🏃‍♀️ Rollout Terminal env variable activation experiment; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr) Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)

REPL

• 🏃‍♀️ Smarter next line move on shift+enter; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• 💪 Investigate shell integration; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)

Debugging

• ✋ 🏃‍♀️ Use the ports API to ignore all ports; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• Pre-release of debugger extension using debugpy 1.5.1; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• 🏃‍♀️ Support a global justMyCode setting; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• 🏃‍♀️ Set up platform-specific VSIXs; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)

Formatting

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Linting

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Testing

• Increase test coverage for testing issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• 🏃 Unifying test output to the test panel; issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• Review external Django testing PR; issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• 💪 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in launch.json; issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)

vscode.dev

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Documentation

• 🏃 FastAPI tutorial; issue; Luciana Abud (@luabud) Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99) Soojin (Min) Choi (@minsa110)

API

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Engineering

• Drop old settings support in tool extensions & supporting commands in core extension; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Drop Python 3.7 support; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)

Python community

• ✋ Document dev process for WASI for CPython; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Implement a dependency resolver with a customizable API; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)