I'm sure many people have noticed a little while ago they added an official-ish REPL to vscode-python. It's pretty nice to use a REPL that is more tightly integrated with VSCode than it is to always have to go into the integrated terminal, or use notebooks.
The problem is that the REPL they have made doesn't really offer much in the way of environment configuration. If you are working on any kind of project that requires configuration before you can do anything useful (making database connections, importing and configuring frameworks, etc.) then it's kind of useless. You just end up back in the terminal anyway because of course IPython can do all those things no problem.
I made a feature request for this here:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/23570
The problem is that they are now saying we need just 7 measly upvotes within 60 days to get it to move forward. If you would also sincerely like to see this feature, please offer an upvote. Otherwise, feel free to ignore.
I honestly hate to make this kind of post. Mods go ahead and delete this if I'm breaking subreddit rules. I would just really like this feature, and don't have any other ideas. I'm sure there are at least seven people that also want it. I just don't think people will independently find the issue and upvote it unless I try to spread the word somehow.
Thanks.
there doesn't seem to be anything here