Look for Python envs maintained by renv during automatic runtime discovery

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
43/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, r
Domain
developer-experience, tooling

Research direction

Start at the automatic runtime discovery entry point and read the linked renv Python article. Determine how the standard renv.lock identifies a Python environment, then make that environment treated approximately like a local venv. Done means a workspace with a Python environment specified by renv.lock is discovered automatically.

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Description

enhancement lang: python support

Surfaced in our private beta here: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron-beta/discussions/153

The renv R package not only can manage R environments (version of R, R package versions) but also Python project dependencies: https://rstudio.github.io/renv/articles/python.html

We should look the the standard renv.lock file for a workspace to see if there is a Python env specified, and we should treat it approximately the same as a local venv.

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