Latest update version 2020.8.101144 leads to broken input prompt in python debug console

[IssamLaradji]

Latest update version 2020.8.101144 leads to broken input prompt in python debug console. This issue never happened in previous versions of VSCode or extension.

Bug: Notebook Editor, Interactive Window, Editor cells

Steps to cause the bug to occur

1. Create a simple python file containing this command

name = input('what is your name?')
print(name)

2. Launch it with the python debugger. The debugger will just freeze at the prompt what is your name? and will not print user's input.

Actual behavior

The debugger will just freeze at the prompt what is your name? and will not print user's input.

Expected behavior

The debugger should just print the user's input and continue the program

Your Jupyter and/or Python environment

VSCode Version: 1.48
OS Version: macOS Catalina 10.15.6
Python Version: 3.7.6
Python extension: 2020.8.101144

Developer Tools Console Output

Microsoft Data Science for VS Code Engineering Team: @rchiodo, @IanMatthewHuff, @DavidKutu, @DonJayamanne, @greazer, @joyceerhl

[fabioz]

One thing that changed is that the debugger no longer patches sys.stdin to give the CMD_INPUT_REQUESTED notification (i.e.: 499bbb2).

Does someone from the Jupyter notebook integration side know if this could be an issue? -- I wasn't aware of anyone needing that, but maybe it's needed in this case (if that's the case we need to make that an option instead of never patching it).

[karthiknadig]

/cc @rchiodo

[karthiknadig]

@IssamLaradji If you have a launch.json, try adding "redirectOutput": true to your launch.json debug configuration.

[fabioz]

Duplicate of; #370