Python: Iteration Plan for March 2024

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in March 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

Getting started

N/A

Environments

• Explore adding support for Hatch and Pixi Environments; @karrtikr
  • Hatch; issue; @karrtikr
  • Pixi; issue; @karrtikr
• Explore supporting version constraints for various tools for automatic environment selection; @karrtikr
  • Pyenv; issue; @karrtikr
  • Pipenv; issue; @karrtikr
  • Poetry; issue; @karrtikr
• Investigate API for workflow contributions; issue; @karthiknadig

Editing

N/A

Terminal

• Address VS Code issues regarding environment collection and shell integration; issue; @karrtikr

REPL

• Fix shell integration bugs; issue; issue; @anthonykim1
• 🏃‍♀️ Spike to find common ground between Python REPL and IW; issue; @anthonykim1 @amunger
• Remove Smart Send experiment in favor of setting; issue; @anthonykim1
• 💪 Unify Python REPL triggers; issue; @anthonykim1

Debugging

• ✋ Improve "Run and debug" button support; issue; @paulacamargo25
• Django and Flask startup script selection; issue @paulacamargo25
• Implement Report Issue API for vscode-python and python-debugger; issue @paulacamargo25
• 🏃‍♀️ Remove copy of debugpy from Python extension; issue; @paulacamargo25

Testing

• 💪 🏃‍♀️ Switch to named pipes for testing communication; issue; @eleanorjboyd @karthiknadig
• 💪 🏃‍♀️ Fix remaining issues to remove test rewrite experiment code; issue @eleanorjboyd
• 💪 🏃‍♀️ Plan custom args user study; issue; @eleanorjboyd @cwebster-99

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

N/A

API

N/A

Engineering

• Isolate Python code so it doesn't conflict with user code; issue; @karthiknadig

Python community

• Add WASI to CPython CI; discussion; @brettcannon
• Get CPython test suite passing under wasmtime --wasi preview2 for wastmtime 18; issue; @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ PyCascades planning; @dawnwages @luabud
• 🏃‍♀️ PyCon US planning; @dawnwages

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Deferred Items

• 🔵🏃‍♀️ Adopt proposed API for testing coverage feature; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• Investigate contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View; issue; @paulacamargo25
• 💪 Start refactoring code for custom args; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Implement a dependency resolver with a customizable API; @brettcannon
• 🏃 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in settings.json; issue @eleanorjboyd
• Implement a Python traceback problem matcher in core
• ✋ 🔴 Use conda run when debugging (waiting on the conda team to give us the go-ahead to rely on conda run so fundamentally); @paulacamargo25
• Investigate how we configure running and debugging
• ✋ Write web tests; issue; @karthiknadig
• Unify venvPath and venvFolders; issue
• 🔴 💪 Investigate a contribution point for workflow extensions; @karthiknadig