Python: Iteration Plan for August 2024

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in August 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

• 🏃‍♀️ Design and review environment management APIs; issue; @karthiknadig
• 🏃‍♀️ Design and review of package management APIs; issue; @karthiknadig
• Migrate pygls to use new lsprotocol (LSP 3.18); issue; @karthiknadig

Editing

N/A

Terminal

• Test shell integration proposed API; issue @anthonykim1
• Add other shell types to core; issue; @anthonykim1
  • Julia issue; @anthonykim1
  • Nushell issue; @anthonykim1
• Add telemetry when python terminal REPL is used; issue @anthonykim1
• 🏃‍♀️ Implement problem matcher; issue; @anthonykim1
• Investigate work necessary for git pre-commit hooks; issue @anthonykim1

REPL

• Improve normalizing string when sending commands to REPL; issue @anthonykim1
• Allow users to access native REPL via command palette; issue @anthonykim1
  • Properly set directory for native REPL issue issue @anthonykim1

Testing

• Adopt proposed API for test debug restart; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• Switch to using unittest.main and a custom runner for unittest; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• Implement Django test support; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• Exploration for v2 of testing/debugging configs; issue; @cwebster-99

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

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

API

N/A

Engineering

N/A

Python community

• DjangoCon Europe - Supercharge Python DX in VS Code, Codespaces and Dev Containers Workshop; @dawnwages
• EuroPython / SciPy; @dawnwages @luabud
• Proof of concept for lock file PEP; @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ Manage discussion for lock file PEP; @brettcannon
• Get wasm32-wasip2 build target working for CPython; @brettcannon
• Add package sub-command to wasi.py; @brettcannon
• 💪 zlib compiled to wasi build; @brettcannon

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<summary>Deferred Items</summary>

• ✋ Implement dynamically detecting production, staging, and development configurations for Django; issue; @paulacamargo25

• Improvements to debug configuration

  • Add stop_action configuration option to execute with the stop button; issue; @paulacamargo25
  • Support file base name substitution in module configuration in launch.json; issue; @paulacamargo25
  • Improve debug configuration creation; issue; @paulacamargo25
  • Investigate default configuration arguments for Flask; issue; @paulacamargo25

• Add support for running web apps using the run button; issue; @paulacamargo25

• Add support for switching JustMyCode flag on the debugger UI panel dynamically; issue; @paulacamargo25

• Add "variablePresentation" in settings.json; issue; @paulacamargo25

• Implement Debug Terminal with shell integration; issue; @paulacamargo25

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

• 💪 Leverage variable pane in Native REPL; issue; @anthonykim1 @amunger

• Remove old testing code; issue; @eleanorjboyd

• 🔵🏃‍♀️ Adopt proposed API for testing coverage feature; issue; @eleanorjboyd

• 💪 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

• Unify venvPath and venvFolders; issue

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