Python: Iteration Plan for November 2024

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

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

Summary:

• Continue work on the Python Environments extension (@karthiknadig)
• Addressing bugs and incorporating feedback on Terminal and REPL (@anthonykim1)
• Addressing bugs and improvements for Testing Coverage (@eleanorjboyd)
• Addressing bugs in the debugger repo. (@eleanorjboyd)

Environments

• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Finish up environment manager extension; issue; @karthiknadig
• 🏃‍♀️ Replace selection, create, get and set environments in pyhton extension with new behaior; issue; @karthiknadig

Terminal

• Python 3.13 bug fixes for REPL and Smart send; @anthonykim1
  • Fix normalization for Python 3.13; issue; @anthonykim1
  • cpython upstream fix to adjust terminal cursor to correct place; issue; @anthonykim1
• Properly differentiate Windows, Linux, and WSL for Python Shell Integration; issue; @anthonykim1
• Ensure Python Terminal Shell Integration setting is effective without reloading; issue; @anthonykim1
• Gitbash terminal not opening to desired workspace folder. issue; @anthonykim1

REPL

• 🏃‍♀️ Python REPL doesn't handle window reload; issue; @anthonykim1
• Show notification to suggest Native REPL when "python" is typed in terminal; issue; @anthonykim1
• Leave focus on editor after smart-send to Native REPL; issue; @anthonykim1
• 💪 Show "install Jupyter extension" only if users have rich output in REPL; issue; @anthonykim1

Testing

• Contribute to the coverage.py package through surfacing branch coverage; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ Add error communication around dynamic adapter activation bug issue @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ Pytest --rootdir arg alignment with python.testing.cwd setting; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• 💪 add support for pytest-describe plugin; issue; @eleanorjboyd

Debugger

• add support for interpreter paths with spaces in the debugpy extension; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• fix bug on debugger restart testing running all tests in workspace; issue; @eleanorjboyd

Engineering

• 🏃‍♀️ Add symbol publisher to extension/npm templates; @karthiknadig

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Deferred Items

• Formalize Python project/packages structure and content for opinionated flow; issue; @cwebster-99 @karthiknadig

• ⬛ Create content for AI tutorial; issue; @cwebster-99 @luabud

• 💪 Support interrupt for Native REPL on Windows; issue; @anthonykim1

• 💪 Start refactoring code for custom args; issue; @eleanorjboyd

• 🏃 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in settings.json; issue @eleanorjboyd

• Unify venvPath and venvFolders; issue

• Switch to using unittest.main and a custom runner for unittest; issue; @eleanorjboyd

• Understand the problem for git pre-commit hooks; issue @anthonykim1

• 💪 Run in Python REPL for Chat; issue; @anthonykim1