Prompt or auto install requirements from requirements.txt

[DonJayamanne]

Someone getting started with VSC python will find this handy.
Workflow:

• Open a folder, and we detect requirements.txt, we can display a prompt
• Or select a interpreter, and we detect a requirements.txt we can display a prompt

[luabud]

#160

[thelinuxer]

I think it's better if this action was based on a setting that can be saved in the workspace. An example project can have a requirements.txt (production or base requirements) and dev_requirements.txt (extra packages for debugging/testing/profiling ..etc).

I would like to be able to set the workspace configuration that would define which file vscode should install the requirements from by default.

The setting could be python.default_requirements or something similar.

[torchsmoke]

What is the status here?

[luabud]

Hi @Ben-Faessler, this issue haven't been prioritized yet. We plan to do it eventually but not ETAs for that yet.

[brettcannon]

We have an experiment that does this and is available under the vscode.python.createEnvironment.trigger setting.

[brettcannon]

#21965