Python: Iteration Plan for January 2024 #22684

This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in January 2024. 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

• 🏃‍♀️ Design opinionated flow for package installation; issue; Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99) Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Environments

• 🏃‍♀️ Use webworker for Conda & Windows registry when discovering environments; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• ⬛ Explore supporting version constraints for various tools for automatic environment selection; pyenv; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Add a "Create Environment" option from the environment selection quick pick; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Editing

N/A

Terminal

• Address concerns with terminal activation experiment; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)

REPL

• 🔴 🏃‍♀️ Do a user study around the REPL; Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)
• 🏃‍♀️ Use shell integration to support previous command; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• ✋ 🏃‍♀️ Fix randomized shell integration decoration for Python REPL users with Windows pwsh; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• Investigate how to lower the risk of losing the first pasted line into the REPL; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• 🏃‍♀️ Investigate a VS Code-native REPL experience; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)

Debugging

• 🏃‍♀️ Use the ports API to ignore all ports; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• Use Python Debugger in pre-release builds of the core extension; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• 🏃‍♀️ Improve "Run and debug" button support; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• 🏃‍♀️ Look into test debugging stability/configuration; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• Investigate contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)

Formatting

N/A

Linting

N/A

Testing

• 🏃‍♀️ Design custom arguments for test discovery and execution; issue; Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• 🏃‍♀️ Switch to named pipes for testing communication; issue; Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• ✋ 🏃‍♀️ Adopt proposed API for testing coverage feature; issue; Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• 💪 Start refactoring code for custom args; issue; Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

• Investigate a quickstart page; issue; Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)
• Improve formatting and linting docs; issue; Luciana Abud (@luabud)

API

N/A

Engineering

• 🏃‍♀️ Isolate Python code so it doesn't conflict with user code; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Python community

• Document dev process for WASI for CPython; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• Implement a wasi.py build script for CPython; PR; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• Fix CPython test suite to pass under WASI SDK 20 with wasmtime 14+ in a pydebug build; project; buildbots Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃‍♀️ Get WASI to tier 2 support for CPython; issue; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• PyCascades planning; Dawn Gibson Wages (@dawnwages) Luciana Abud (@luabud)