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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

No need to remember `uv pip install...` or `pip install...` with the Python Environments Extension it is just the click of a few buttons 🖱️

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Is the pipenv community on bluesky?? Support incoming to the python environments extension in VS Code! #pipenv #python

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

did I write this wiki to reference myself or to send users. yes ! we love a dual purpose

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Do you know the difference between "python-envs.terminal.autoActivationType" set to "command" or "shellStartup"? It's an important but complicated setting (which confused me when I first got into the envs ext) so I wrote a wiki page: github.com/microsoft/vs...

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Hi Conda people! I am back with a specific question this time- how do you tell if a given Conda environment is prefixed or named? I can see it in `conda info --envs` but is there any way given a specific path to an executable to know which one it is without parsing that list?

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Would love your feedback on our new extension for locating and activating python environments for VS Code! We are actively developing and making bug fixes to make it as good as possible for the Python community! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Python Environments - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Provides a unified python environment experience

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is an active area of work right now for the Python team at VS Code! We would love for your to try our new extension for environments and let us know how it works! We are committed to fixing bugs and I will respond to issues on the repo directly! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Python Environments - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Provides a unified python environment experience

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

always love some exciting news in the environment and package space!!

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

same thing for the activate script, I end up search for it in a ton of places since I don't feel confident about where it is stored. Are there docs on this? github.com/microsoft/vs...

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Thanks for the reply- any better way to find the .ps1 script? github.com/microsoft/vs... I ended up just checking a lot of locations.

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Mostly I struggled to find different scripts, either the activate script or a specific shell one. I ended up just checking a bunch of candidates like this for .ps1 github.com/microsoft/vs...

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Thank you for the reply! First I would love people to try the new Python Environments Extension on VS Code to make sure it works for their Conda environments (finding and activating them). marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Python Environments - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Provides a unified python environment experience

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Im a venv fan esp with uv but if you are a VS Code user- you should give our new extension a try! Ive found its made me much better at learning / understanding all the different environment managers marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

curious if this extension my team and I are working on might help... Great way to manage many different environments! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Python Environments - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Provides a unified python environment experience

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is extremely relatable- every thought about switching environment managers?

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

if you are a VS Code user- you should give our new extension a try! It uses UV under the hood when you are using venvs and adds a super helpful UI: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Python Environments - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Provides a unified python environment experience

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Hi! Would love if you gave the new extension my team and I have been working on for just this problem a try and tell me what you think! Check it out here: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Python Environments - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Provides a unified python environment experience

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Anyone a Conda wizard here and can share their secrets?? I have spent the better part of this week working on Conda activation for the Python Environments extension and some things still feel like magic 🔮 github.com/microsoft/vs...

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bug fix: enhance conda environment management with sourcing status and updated shell activation support by eleanorjboyd · Pull Request #693 · microsoft/vscode-python-environments

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It is in preview now but in the next few months will be bundled automatically with the Python extension. We are excited for the upgrade to the Python experience in VS Code!

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

give it a try and let me know! Our team is always accepting feedback and people trying out all the newest features!

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

mind if I copy this over and create an issue on our repo so I can get some of my team members to take a look?

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

hm this is a great question - do you want to run remotely but store the code locally?

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

How is it going? Any feedback for us?

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Great feedback! I know the pylance team would love to hear your favorite refactoring! You can get in touch with them via a issue here or I can file one for you github.com/microsoft/py...

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GitHub - microsoft/pylance-release: Documentation and issues for Pylance

Documentation and issues for Pylance. Contribute to microsoft/pylance-release development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Love to hear you are a fan! Do you use copilot chat or just inline completions?

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

You should give the Python Environments Extension a try! Would love to hear how it works for data science applications and where we can improve: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Python Environments - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Provides a unified python environment experience

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

What's this plugin? I need to give it a try!

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This is great! Do you put this as instructions on all your repos?

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Would love your feedback on the new Python Environments Extension in VS Code as I think it will help you understand your python versions & environments in your workspace. Give it a try: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Python Environments - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Provides a unified python environment experience

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Sorry to hear you are hitting this problem! We would love to help you out over at github.com/microsoft/vs... and if you assign your issue to "isidorn" it will get to the right eyes. Appreciate the feedback!

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GitHub - microsoft/vscode: Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Beginning a series of videos demoing the new Python Environments Extension! Starting where all good Python projects start... creating an environment. Follow along as I will be posting new videos every few days! marketplace link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Had a ton of fun in May at PyCon US giving a booth talk about building your own MCP server with Python for VS Code! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYcQ...

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Making your own MCP server in VS Code

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We are beginning rollout of the Python Environments Extension! Anyone can install and enable the extension and its a game changer so give it a try and send in your feedback! (see these extra enablement details if you are on VS Code insiders: github.com/microsoft/vs...)

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Brett Cannon @snarky.ca · 02/05/2025

Oops I did it again, I wrote a new PEP, got lost in the comments, oh coder, coder. Oops, you thought I could stop, that I knew better, I'm not that intelligent. discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-im... genius.com/Britney-spea...

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Pre-PEP: Import name metadata

As threatened promised, here is my next planned PEP (I haven’t bothered making it an official PEP yet in case the idea is considered downright bad, which would save me writing the PoC and translating ...

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Can't believe @pycon.us 2025 is 2 weeks away! This will be my first time attending and I couldn't be more pumped! Any advice for how to make the most of the conference??

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Great things that started at 9am today: 1. VS Code Agent Day @vscode.dev 2. Sound Transit merch shop! not too bad for a random Wednesday morning!

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Around 11am PDT today notebook engineer and expert Don Jayamanne will be LIVE on VS Code Agent Mode Day to talk all things Notebooks and Copilot. He will doing live demos and exploring all the newest features so definitely check it out on Youtube: www.youtube.com/live/HNly8eN...

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🔴 VS Code Live: Agent Mode Day

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

current work in progress... do you spot the new feature?

Screenshot of VS Code with the test coverage open and the branch coverage for file num.py hovered over.

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

thank you to the contributor Danila Grobov or @danila-grobov on github!

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So pumped about this new feature to support Django test coverage contributed by a community member! As someone who's not a Django expert, getting help from the community is amazing. Try it on the python pre-release now: github.com/microsoft/vs...

VS Code window after coverage was run on a Django tester project.

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Huge release for Copilot in Notebooks: - 🆕 New notebook tool (/newNotebook) - 💬 Chat to edit notebook files (including agent mode) - 🧭 Diff toolbars for edit navigation & undo seamlessly - 📎 Attach notebook outputs as context details and settings: code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_9...

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Eleanor Boyd @eleanor-py.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Playing around with Copilot for notebooks in @vscode.dev and the new feature I just added that lets you attach notebook cell outputs to chat. Nice to learn the real bottleneck these days is my typing speed 😅

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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 24/02/2025

No launch.json, no problem. Python no-config debugging allows you to leverage debugging features in @code, without needing configurations in a launch.json To use, open a terminal and type debugpy <script .py or module>

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Karthik Nadig @kanadig.com · 21/01/2025

In the latest pre-release of Python Debugger extension, we added a feature that we call no-config debugging. Open a terminal is VS Code and run your script with `debugpy <myscript>` instead of `python <myscript>`. Try it out. github.com/microsoft/vs...

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No-config debugging · Issue #561 · microsoft/vscode-python-debugger

Hey folks 👋 After listening to community feedback that configuring the debugger can be difficult and confusing, we have begun working on a no-config debugging experience! We are excited to say that...

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