REPL doesn’t work when the python file is in nested folder

[rebornix]

Type: Bug

My python file is in a sub folder nested/test.py and there is a csv file next to it nested/data.csv, however if I try to load the file with relative path "data.csv", it only works if I use "nested/data.csv".

I was expecting the relative path to just work. However if this is as designed, I would love to have a setting to set the cwdto the parent folder of the python file when using it in REPL.

Extension version: 2024.9.11731014 VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.91.0-insider (Universal) (63d06667600a2c40245a0ab1f9e2ea816d2fe849, 2024-06-21T10:24:54.816Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 23.5.0 Modes:

• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.12.3
• Type of virtual environment used (e.g. conda, venv, virtualenv, etc.): Venv
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Default

User Settings

``` languageServer: "Pylance" testing • promptToConfigure: false ```

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[anthonykim1]

This is weird - does print(os.getcwd()) yield / for you as well? Ideally it should be the workspace path.. trying to think of why we only get this in the new native repl vs. terminal repl.

[saurabhbikram]

This is weird - does print(os.getcwd()) yield / for you as well? Ideally it should be the workspace path.. trying to think of why we only get this in the new native repl vs. terminal repl.

I can confirm i have the same issue, and print(os.getcwd()) does indeed yield /

setting "python.REPL.sendToNativeREPL":false i get the correct working directory in the 'old' terminal.

[Anstetten]

This is weird - does print(os.getcwd()) yield / for you as well? Ideally it should be the workspace path.. trying to think of why we only get this in the new native repl vs. terminal repl.

I am facing the same issue. It spawns in the wrong working directory. It "thinks" it is in the right directory (provides autocomplete for stuff like import backend.components.blabla) but importing anything fails.

[anthonykim1]

Hey folks, good news here: working to get this resolved this month :) As in directory context for REPL should be set properly when users launch REPL, similar to how terminal is able to pull up current working directory. If user is inside multi-root directory we would show options for user to select which directory to use, but otherwise in a more common one workspace directory, we would automatically just set that as a cwd.

Will let you all know once I merge in the changes so you can try it all out. Thanks!

[anthonykim1]

@rebornix As far as settings to straight up let the users set their cwd for REPL, I think that would be feature request. I think the default directory/workspace behavior should be same as Terminal as a baseline regardless.

Not too sure about the setting as folks could just

os.chdir(new_dir)

and set their cwd if they want to override the default workspace directory setting.

[anthonykim1]

Let's track the bug here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/23821
and I'll change this to feature request as in wanting for explicit setting to set directory for REPL even in single workspace scenario.

[github-actions[bot]]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[anthonykim1]

Hi folks. As promisedm we are NOW setting the directory properly for 3 different scenarios as a result of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/pull/23912 (got merged about two days ago), so please give this a try after updating to the latest pre-release version of Python extension.

3 different scenario should cover:

1. Single workspace scenario
2. Multi workspace scenario (we will give you quick selection option)
3. No workspace scenario (empty vs code)

print(os.getcwd())

should yield expected workspace directory, following same trend as terminal.

As far as OPTION to more explicitly choose directory for REPL launch (if you think the result of PR is not enough), please give this issue an upvote so we can see the interest.

FYI

os.chdir('/path/to/your/desired/directory') 

will also allow you to easily navigate through whichever subdirectory or directory of your chose if you want.