Python: Iteration Plan for October 2022 #19972
Description
This plan captures our work in October. 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
- Update walkthrough to mention
Create Environmentissue @cwebster-99 @karrtikr @karthiknadig
Environments
- Add a way to get
PYTHONPATH(due to.envfiles) to the extension API for Pylance issue @karrtikr - ✋ Stabilize extension API (blocked on Jupyter feedback) issue @karrtikr
Editing
None
LSP
- 🏃 ✋⬛ Design document for Jupyter <--> Python <--> [ Pylance, Jedi, etc] interaction; issue; @karthiknadig
Terminal
- 🏃 Explore options for activated terminals and terminal profiles vscode-python#11039 @karrtikr @luabud
Debugging
- Remove dependency injection from debugger code @paulacamargo25 @karthiknadig
- ✋⬛ Isolate debugger code in core extension so it can be extracted easily; issue @paulacamargo25 @karthiknadig
Formatting
- Control rollout of notifying about migrating to the formatting extensions; issue; @luabud @karthiknadig
- 🏃 Control rollout of notifying about migrating to the isort extension; issue; @luabud @karthiknadig
Linting
- 🏃 Control rollout of notifying about migrating to the linting extensions; issue; @luabud @karthiknadig
Testing
- 🏃♀️ ⬛ Rewrite pytest execution/discovery through a pytest plug-in; issue; @eleanorjboyd @karthiknadig
vscode.dev
None
Documentation
None
Engineering
- Update localization to use
l10n.tAPI; PR; @paulacamargo25
Python community
- 🏃♀️ Find out the concerns blocking releasing
packaging22; @brettcannon - Get guidance from the Python steering council about what will be required to promote WASI support to tier 2; @brettcannon
- 🏃♀️ Decide whether creating a library crate for the Python Launcher is worth it or to have
pysupport some JSON output; @brettcannon
Deferred Items
- Select an environment based on
VIRTUAL_ENV - Select an environment based on
CONDA_EXE - ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 @brettcannon (blocked on VS Code issue)
- ✋ Create platform-specific VSIXs (blocked on standardizing on extension pipelines supporting platform-specific VSIXs); vscode-python#17439 @paulacamargo25
- Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 @karrtikr
- Rewrite test discovery for pytest vscode-python#17242
- ✋ Finalize Python Launcher plug-in design (blocked on conda's feedback); discussion; @brettcannon
- Support
.python-versionfor pyenv; issue; @karrtikr - Investigate any remaining places we are not using
conda run - Implement a Python traceback problem matcher in core
- 🔴 Use
conda runwhen debugging (waiting on the conda team to give us the go-ahead to rely onconda runso fundamentally); @paulacamargo25 - Provide settings to control what environment details are displayed; @karrtikr
- Investigate configuring running and debugging
- Work out how best to install debugpy into a new debugger extension; issue @paulacamargo25 @karthiknadig
- ✋ Write web tests; issue; @karthiknadig