Python: Iteration Plan for October 2023 #22173

This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in October 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

• ⬛ 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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Terminal

• Rollout Terminal env variable activation experiment; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr) Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)
• Investigate showing a notification when deactivate command is run in terminal; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)

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)
• Set up platform-specific VSIXs; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• ✋ 🏃‍♀️ Use Python Debugger in pre-release builds of the core extension; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• 🏃‍♀️ Support string inputs for numerical values; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• Investigate contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)

Formatting

• Remove legacy settings support from formatting extensions; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Remove formatting code from core extension; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Linting

• Remove legacy settings support from linting extensions; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Remove linting code from core extension; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Testing

• 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 settings.json; issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• 🏃 Adopt the proposed port attributes API in testing rewrite; 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

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Python community

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