Python extension is broken

[abhishekkrthakur]

It seems like the python interpreter cannot be selected in 3.7.1

Command 'Python: Select Interpreter' resulted in an error (command 'python.setInterpreter' not found)

[vnijs]

Things were working nicely in 3.6.2 but not in 3.7.1 or 3.7.2. With the latest version of the python extension it is trying to also load a jupyter extension and dying there.

[code-asher]

Looks like we have another broken extension...I wonder why it works in 3.6.2 though. Maybe it's pulling a different version of the Python extension.

Looks like we have another broken extension...I wonder why it works in 3.6.2 though. Maybe it's pulling a different version of the Python extension.

I think it started to break with Python 2020.11 where it separated Jupyter into a standalone extension and was dependent on it:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/releases/tag/2020.11.358366026
"Code for Jupyter Notebooks support has been refactored into the Jupyter extension, which is now a dependency for the Python extension"
The previous python (2020.10) worked for me with code-server 3.7.2.

[vnijs]

@zhizheng-1 Thanks! I can confirm that the 2020.10 version (link below) does indeed work with code-server 3.7.2

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/releases/tag/2020.10.332292344

[bruwozniak]

The problem I believe is that you are shipping the 2020.12.0-dev version of the Jupyter extension in your extension gallery (presumably automatically built from https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-jupyter), whereas in Microsoft's gallery the versions are different: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-toolsai.jupyter, the latest one being 2020.11.372831992

[code-asher]

Ahhhhhh I see. It doesn't look like they use GitHub releases or tags so our builder must just be continually building off master and breaking all the time as a consequence.

[ttthree]

Any timeline to get this fixed or is there any workaround ? :)

[code-asher]

No timeline yet; I'm not entirely sure we can do anything differently from our end other than manually updating the version which won't be sustainable. Maybe we can get the vscode-jupyter repo to start adding releases to GitHub, then our marketplace can just pull those in instead of building itself.

[vnijs]

@ttthree I installed the latest extension versions of jupyter and python from marketplace (link below for jupyter) and that seems to work.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-toolsai.jupyter

[jhallas]

I build code-server into a Docker image I use. I got it working by first installing the python extension (which now automatically installs the 2020.12.0-dev jupyter extension mentioned above from code-server. I then install the jupyter vsix linked above with --force because it sees it as an older version. I then add "extensions.autoUpdate": false to my settings.json file so it doesn't automatically update to the incompatible version upon startup.