Python: Iteration Plan for January 2022 #18214

This plan captures our work in January. 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

• 🏃‍♀️ Lock down initial flow for project creation vscode-python#17194 Luciana Abud (@luabud) Soojin (Min) Choi (@minsa110) Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃‍ Investigate breaking the Jupyter soft dependency; vscode-python#18073 Luciana Abud (@luabud) Soojin (Min) Choi (@minsa110)
• 🏃‍♀️ Python Data Science walkthrough version 2 vscode-python#18139 Luciana Abud (@luabud) Soojin (Min) Choi (@minsa110)

Environments

• Remove python.pythonPath experiment vscode-python#17977 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• 🏃‍♀️ Implement the proposed public API for the extension and use it internally vscode-python#17905 Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Prototype using the new language status API; vscode-python#18040 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Utilize quick pick separators vscode-python#18165 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)

Editing

None

Terminal

• 🏃‍♀️ Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• Explore options for activated terminals and terminal profiles vscode-python#11039 Luciana Abud (@luabud)

Debugging

• Investigate automatic debug configuration based on the open workspace; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)

Formatting

None

Linting

• Put flake8 behind LSP vscode-python#17235 Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Testing

• Rewrite testing adapter for pytest vscode-python#17242 Kim-Adeline Miguel (@kimadeline)
• 🏃‍♀️ Rewrite testing adapter for unittest vscode-python#17242 Kim-Adeline Miguel (@kimadeline)

(github|vscode).dev

None

Engineering

• 🏃‍♀️ Use conda run for running tools vscode-python#17973 Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• 🏃‍♀️ Explore localization (desktop and web); issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25) TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃‍♀️ venv test failing due to VS Code upstream and setting inspection vscode-python#17666 (blocked on vscode#135121) Kartik Raj (@karrtikr) Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• ✋ Switch to an insiders/nightly extension in the Marketplace (blocked on work to standardize this sort of thing) vscode-python#17196 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Move from enableProposedApi to enabledApiProposals in package.json; vscode-python#18184 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)

Python community

• Get CI set up for building CPython under WASM; repo Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• Get PEP 665 accepted (although it was ultimately rejected); PEP Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃‍♀️ Start a conversation with release managers about building zip files containing an interpreter Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)

Deferred items

• ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) (blocked on Pylance investigating)
• ✋ Create platform-specific VSIXs (some discussion needed); vscode-python#17439 Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)