microsoft / microsoft/vscode-python-debugger

Strange / buggy behaviour of launch configurations

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Since Nov 5, 2025.

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Description

There's a couple of issues:

  1. The "select a debug configuration" popup appears twice when creating a launch configuration
  2. Creating another configuration doesn't create a launch configuration in the launch.json but somehow does add an entry called Python Debugger: Python File
  3. Clicking the edit launch configuration button crashes. And after this, the extra launch configuration from 2. has disappeared again.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ea74952e-33ea-4ec0-ab23-562b391fa4b0

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