Python: Iteration Plan for June 2024

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in June 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

• 🏃‍♀️ Finalize template repo for various project types; issue; @cwebster-99

Environments

• Gather feedback on environments panel UI; issue; @cwebster-99 @karthiknadig
• 🏃‍♀️ Formalize Python project/packages structure and content for opinionated flow; issue; @cwebster-99 @karthiknadig
• 🏃 Native Python Finder; @DonJayamanne
  • PATH locator, custom paths, and settings; issue; @DonJayamanne
  • Workspace Conda, Poetry, Virtual Envs; issue; @DonJayamanne
  • Support for workspace settings; issue; @DonJayamanne
  • Get build binaries into Python extension; issue; @karthiknadig
  • Collect telemetry data for comparing environments detected by legacy and new python finder; issue; @karthiknadig

Editing

N/A

Terminal

N/A

REPL

• Make default for interactive.execute to be Enter; issue; @amunger
• Allow Smart + Send for Native REPL; issue; @anthonykim1
• Unify Python REPL triggers; issue; @anthonykim1
• 🏃‍♀️ User study for Python (Native) REPL; issue; @cwebster-99 @anthonykim1

Debugging

• ✋ Polish terminal debug experience; issue @paulacamargo25
• 🔵 Investigate dynamically detecting production, staging, and development configurations for Django; issue; @paulacamargo25

Testing

• 🏃‍♀️ Dynamically handle test framework on activation; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• 🔵 🏃‍♀️ Adopt proposed API for testing coverage feature; issue; @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃‍♀️ MVP for custom args user study; issue; @eleanorjboyd @paulacamargo25

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

N/A

API

N/A

Engineering

N/A

Python community

• DjangoCon Europe - Supercharge Python DX in VS Code, Codespaces and Dev Containers Workshop; @dawnwages
• EuroPython / SciPy planning; @dawnwages @luabud

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Deferred Items

- [ ] Support interrupt for Native REPL on Windows; [issue](https://github.com//issues/23523); @anthonykim1 - [ ] User study for custom args; [issue](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-internalbacklog/issues/468); @cwebster-99 @eleanorjboyd @paulacamargo25 - [ ] 💪 Leverage variable pane in Native REPL; [issue](https://github.com//issues/23568); @anthonykim1 @amunger - [ ] Remove old testing code; [issue](https://github.com//issues/23569); @eleanorjboyd - [ ] 🔵🏃‍♀️ Adopt proposed API for testing coverage feature; [issue](https://github.com//issues/22671); @eleanorjboyd - [ ] Investigate contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View; [issue](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-debugger/issues/110); @paulacamargo25 - [ ] 💪 Start refactoring code for custom args; [issue](https://github.com//issues/22670); @eleanorjboyd - [ ] 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ [Implement a dependency resolver with a customizable API](https://github.com/brettcannon/mousebender/issues/105); @brettcannon - [ ] 🏃 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in `settings.json`; [issue](https://github.com//issues/21845) @eleanorjboyd - [ ] Unify `venvPath` and `venvFolders`; [issue](https://github.com//issues/1479)