Inserting Activate.ps1 command into extension contributed terminals

[paulober]

Type: Bug

Behaviour

Currently I have selected a .venv in my project folder created by the Python extension.
The problem now is I have a custom PTY extension terminal profile contributed by a different extension. But if it opens the Python extension automatically inserts: & C:/mypath/Activate.ps1\r which is not good for my custom terminal profiles as they aren't even running in a local env.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install any extension that contributes a custom terminal profile (and has the Python extension as dependency) <- maybe also related. Like for example the MicroPico extension
2. Open a python project that will trigger your other extension to automatically open it's terminal. (make sure before you have generated a venv in this folder with the python extesnion and selected it). The python extension will now automatically insert this Activate.ps1 into the terminal. (i guess you hook into the onDidTerminalOpen event in vscode and randomly insert these things)

Diagnostic data

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

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Behaviour

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Steps to reproduce:

1. XXX

Diagnostic data

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

XXX

Extension version: 2024.14.0
VS Code version: Code 1.93.0 (4849ca9bdf9666755eb463db297b69e5385090e3, 2024-09-04T13:02:38.431Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Modes:

• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.12.5
• Type of virtual environment used (e.g. conda, venv, virtualenv, etc.): Venv
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Pylance

User Settings

languageServer: "Pylance"

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[karthiknadig]

@paulober You can disable activation, by setting these off:

There is no way to tell which extension created which terminal to filter things out. There are other extensions that expect that activations occur when a terminal is created, then there are extensions that expect that activations don't happen. So, the way we handle this is via the settings above, if you have them on, then any terminal created by extension would be activated.

[paulober]

Ok, thanks for the response, so my only option is to edit the users global setting to disable this "Activate in all environments" setting before automatically opening the terminal?

[karthiknadig]

You should be able to disable this at the workspace level, if there is a specific project that you need to do this with. But, if the common pattern in your workflow involves using custom terminals, then you can turn this off globally and activate environments via command line.

I think there is a good feature here to allow toggling the activation.

[paulober]

Ok thanks. Actually i'm the dev of this custom terminal. So i probably and the generated projects rely on the Python extension so I probably will add this setting like you suggested to every generated .vscode/settings.json so per workspace folder.

Thanks for the help.