Python: Iteration Plan for November 2021

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Python iteration plan

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

• Remove "join mailing list" notification experiment vscode-python#17904 @karthiknadig
• Remove walkthrough experiment (and make walkthrough a permanent thing) vscode-python#17880 @luabud
• Decide what to do/next steps with the data science walkthrough vscode-python#17193 @luabud @minsa110
• 🏃 Lock down initial flow for project creation vscode-python#17194 @luabud @minsa110 @brettcannon

Environments

• Address issues w/ discovery component vscode-python#17250 @karrtikr
• Remove discovery module code experiment vscode-python#17962 @karrtikr
• Remove python.pythonPath experiment vscode-python#17977 @karrtikr
• 🏃‍♀️ Implement the proposed public API for the extension and use it internally vscode-python#17905 @karthiknadig
• Don't trigger prompting under macOS Monterey about Python 2 going away vscode-python#17870 @kimadeline

Editing

None

Terminal

• Infer environment variables for an activated conda environment vscode-python#17332 @paulacamargo25

Debugging

• 🏃‍♀️ Environment variables not read while debugging Flask vscode-python#16984 @karthiknadig
• Remove remembering debug configuration experiment (and keep feature) vscode-python#17895 @karthiknadig

Formatting

None

Linting

• 🏃‍♀️⬛ Put flake8 behind LSP vscode-python#17235 @karthiknadig

Testing

• Rewrite testing adapter for pytest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline
• 🏃‍♀️ Rewrite testing adapter for unittest vscode-python#17242 @kimadeline
• Remove failed tests button experiment (and keep the button) vscode-python#17868 @karthiknadig
• Remove refresh tests button experiment (and keep the button) vscode-python#17868 @karthiknadig

(github|vscode).dev

• Update/hide walkthrough for the web (both main and DS) vscode-python#18002 @luabud
• Hide UI elements that do not apply to vscode.dev vscode-python#17252 @karrtikr

Engineering

• Get virtual workspaces w/ Pylance functioning vscode-python#17253 @karrtikr
• Get untrusted workspaces w/ Pylance working vscode-python#17254 @karrtikr
• 🏃‍♀️ Use conda run for running tools vscode-python#17973 @paulacamargo25
• Test against Python 3.10 vscode-python#17760 @karthiknadig

Python community

• Publish the second draft of PEP 665 @brettcannon
• 🏃‍♀️ Get CPython compiled to WASI via emscripten; coordinating repo @brettcannon
• Clarify the definition of what an "iterator" is (PR, but needs SC approval) @brettcannon

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Deferred items

• Use automatic localization (desktop and web)
• Investigate (and potentially execute on) breaking the Jupyter soft dependency; issue
• ✋ 🔵 Work w/ Pylance on automatic indentation vscode-python#481 @brettcannon (blocked on Pylance investigating)
• ✋ Switch to an insiders/nightly extension in the Marketplace vscode-python#17196 @brettcannon (blocked on core coming up w/ a solution; will move on if not ready by Feb 2022)
• Prototype using the new language status API (need pinning for full move; can shift what we already have to the right as a start); issue
• 🏃‍♀️ venv test failing due to VS Code upstream and setting inspection vscode-python#17666 (blocked on vscode#135121 @karrtikr @karthiknadig