Python: Iteration Plan forJuly 2024

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in July 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

• Native Python Finder; @DonJayamanne
  • Improve telemetry and address issues found; issue;issue; @DonJayamanne @karthiknadig
  • Workspace folder identification; issue; @DonJayamanne
  • Support metadata caching; issue; @DonJayamanne
  • Document pet for integration (viz with PTVS); issue; @DonJayamanne @karthiknadig
  • Integration with Python Extension; issue; @karthiknadig

Editing

N/A

Terminal

• ✋ 🏃‍♀️ Test shell integration proposed API; issue @anthonykim1

REPL

• Remove Run Python command in Jupyter Notebook Cell; issue @anthonykim1
• Support correct execution status for Native REPL; issue @anthonykim1
• Minimize execution output when there is no output; issue @anthonykim1
• 💪 Support interrupt for Native REPL on Windows; issue; @anthonykim1

Debugging

• ✋ 🏃‍♀️ Implement dynamically detecting production, staging, and development configurations for Django; issue; @paulacamargo25
• Implement contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View; issue; @paulacamargo25
• Add telemetry and logging to vscode-python-debugger; issue @paulacamargo25
• Addressing bugs related to settings; issue; issue; issue; @paulacamargo25
• Support displaying inline values in VS Code; issue @paulacamargo25

Testing

• MVP for custom args user study; issue; @eleanorjboyd @paulacamargo25
  • Finalize core contribution for additional testing config menu; issue; @eleanorjboyd
  • Synchronization of vsix for python-debugger and vsocde-python; issue; @eleanorjboyd @paulacamargo25
• User study for custom args; issue; @cwebster-99 @eleanorjboyd @paulacamargo25
• ✋ 🏃‍♀️ Adopt proposed API for test debug restart; issue; @eleanorjboyd

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

• 🏃‍♀️ Outline AI tutorial; issue; @cwebster-99 @luabud

API

N/A

Engineering

N/A

Python community

• 🏃‍♀️ Proof of concept for lock file PEP; @brettcannon
• Make sure CPython works with latest release of wasmtime; @brettcannon
• Make sure CPython works with the latest release of WASI SDK; @brettcannon

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Deferred Items

- [ ] Formalize Python project/packages structure and content for opinionated flow; [issue](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-internalbacklog/issues/472); @cwebster-99 @karthiknadig - [ ] DjangoCon Europe - Supercharge Python DX in VS Code, Codespaces and Dev Containers Workshop; @dawnwages - [ ] EuroPython / SciPy planning; @dawnwages @luabud - [ ] 💪 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 - [ ] 💪 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)