Hi! Does any of you use vscode with pants? if so, could you pls provide any tips on how you set it up? specifically the python setup e.g python path. Thank you!

I don’t use VsCode with pants unfortunately

Depending on how you have your repo setup, maintaining a virtualenv tends to work well, since most editors that understand python understand pointing to a venv. If VSCode supports this, then create an empty venv and populate it with something like

pip install -U -r <(./pants dependencies --external-only 3rdparty/python::)

. This example is taken from the pants repo, your python 3rdparty dependencies may be located elsewhere. The key bit is the

./pants dependencies ...

subcommand which looks like so for the pants repo:

$ ./pants dependencies --external-only 3rdparty/python::
twitter.common.collections<0.4,>=0.3.1
twitter.common.dirutil<0.4,>=0.3.1
twitter.common.confluence<0.4,>=0.3.1
pywatchman==1.4.1
pyopenssl==17.3.0
setproctitle==1.1.10
future==0.16.0
pyflakes==2.0.0
thrift>=0.9.1
contextlib2==0.5.5
coverage<4.6,>=4.5
wheel==0.31.1
requests[security]<2.19,>=2.5.0
fasteners==0.14.1
s3-log-parse==0.1.1
pathspec==0.5.0
pytest<4.0,>=3.4
Markdown==2.1.1
packaging==16.8
psutil==4.3.0
pex==1.5.3
futures==3.0.5; python_version < "3"
six<2,>=1.9.0
beautifulsoup4<4.7,>=4.6.0
faulthandler==2.6; python_version < "3"
parameterized==0.6.1
pytest-cov<2.6,>=2.5
mock==2.0.0
antlr_python_runtime==3.1.3
configparser==3.5.0
pystache==0.5.3
ansicolors==1.0.2
cffi==1.11.1
Pygments==1.4
subprocess32==3.2.7; python_version < "3"
docutils<0.13,>=0.12
setuptools==40.4.3
scandir==1.2
pycodestyle==2.4.0
www-authenticate==0.9.2

thanks @enough-analyst-54434 and @red-balloon-89377

i’m working on a BSP (https://github.com/scalacenter/bsp) implementation for pants which should make extending to editors such as VSCode much simpler. intellij has a client implementation and i was talking with justin kaeser from jetbrains about it at scale by the bay so the only thing holding me back is bandwidth. VSCode would need a client impl as well but i love javascript

@enough-analyst-54434 if that approach works, I think it’d be good to have it documented in a more durable place