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Since May 9, 2025.
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Description
Project Summary
One of the core functionalities of the python environments extension is project management. A project (in the context of this extension) will be defined as: "a single or group of python files which have a environment connected to them". Projects are created by aPythonProjectCreator which implements a create function that will return a PythonProject.
Here is the creators we plan to have as built-ins in the extension:
| Creator | Description | QuickCreate |
MVP? | Issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add Existing Project | Allow user to select file/folder within workspace | No | Yes | - |
| Auto-Find Project | Projects collected in workspace by finding pyproject.toml files |
Yes? | Yes | #398 |
| Python Package | Create new Python Package | Yes | Yes | #392 |
| Python Script with PEP 723 | Create single script with env defined by PEP 723 format | Yes | Yes | #393 |
| Django | New Django project | Yes | No | #394 |
| FastAPI | Create new FastAPI project | Yes | No | #396 |
| Flask | Create new Flask project | Yes | No | #397 |
Outstanding Work
Todos and Status for Built in PythonProjectCreator
- Add Existing Project
- #398
- #392
- #393
- #394
- #396
- #397
Copilot Integration
Additionally, build in projects will be linked up with copilot to provide better support for these project types by copilot during the "new" creation flow.
Bug Fixes
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-environments/issues/272
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-environments/issues/179
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-environments/issues/399
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-environments/issues/410
references:
- original issue on "new projects": https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-environments/issues/191
- over-arching issue on MVP: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-environments/issues/190
- this repo needs to be added to with scenarios for use and testing: https://github.com/eleanorjboyd/python-envs-scenarios
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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