microsoft / microsoft/vscode-python-environments
More gracefully fail on `pyproject.toml` error
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Description
tried going through the "create environment..." flow with a pyproject.toml file but I had an error since my pyproject.toml file was incorrectly formatted. Would be good if the error message was better or it failed more gracefully
Resolved Python Environment /Users/eleanorboyd/python-envs-scenarios/existing-env-folder/.venv/bin/python
2025-05-14 09:19:39.308 [info] Running: uv pip install --python /Users/eleanorboyd/python-envs-scenarios/existing-env-folder/.venv/bin/python -e /Users/eleanorboyd/python-envs-scenarios/existing-env-folder
2025-05-14 09:19:39.378 [info] error: Failed to extract static metadata from `pyproject.toml`
Caused by: TOML parse error at line 6, column 8
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6 | name = "existing env folder"
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not a valid package or extra name: "existing env folder". Names must start and end with a letter or digit and may only contain -, _, ., and alphanumeric characters.
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Start with the "create environment..." flow and the logged uv pip install --python ... -e ... invocation, using the malformed pyproject.toml example to reproduce the failure. Done means the flow reports the package metadata error more clearly or exits gracefully instead of exposing the raw failure.
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- Tech stack
- python, typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100