Python: Iteration Plan for August 2023 #21771

This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in August 2023. 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

• Finalize packaging spec; issue; Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)

Environments

• Investigate how to handle Create Environment when called with a pre-existing environment; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
  • Implement delete and re-create for venv; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
  • Implement delete and re-create for conda; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Investigate using webworker for Python discovery; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Investigate potential uses of the WASI build of CPython (and maybe MicroPython); issue; Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)
• Missing packages diagnostic experimentation; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Editing

N/A

LSP

N/A

Terminal

• ⬛ Activate terminals using environment variables using shell integration and collection API; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)

REPL

• Smarter selection of statements when sending to REPL; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• 🏃‍♀️ Smarter next line move on shift+enter; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)

Debugging

N/A

Formatting

N/A

Linting

• Linting on type; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• MyPy lint all files; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Testing

• 🏃‍♀️⬛ Triage open testing issues post-rewrite; issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• Make tests work with symlinks; issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• Increase test coverage for testing issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

• 🏃 FastAPI tutorial; issue; Luciana Abud (@luabud) Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99) Soojin (Min) Choi (@minsa110)

API

N/A

Engineering

N/A

Python community

• Document dev process for WASI for CPython; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• ⬛ Enriched/strict package.metadata parsing; PR; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)