Visual Studio Code

where does it ever end? Komodo -> Microsoft Visual Studio -> Atom -> Visual Studio Code

I am now learning Visual Studio Code

I am currently using VSC to edit Python to create Geoprocessing scripts that I can run in Docker containers.

Settings

Install that autopep thing for syntax highlighting. Conda fails but pip succeeds in a shell

python -m pip install autopep8

It's not finding Python!!

Here is a doc telling where it looks.

First set a local environment variable to point to where your environment lives. Mine is here.

CONDA_ENVS_PATH="C:/Users/brian/AppData/Local/ESRI/conda/envs"

Add put the commonly used variables into your user settings, File -> Preferences -> Settings -> User -> Extensions -> Python -> Conda Path

"C:/Program Files/ArcGIS/Pro/bin/Python/Scripts/conda.exe"

Reload VSCode. Intellisense should work for you now too.

Now when you select a Python version, the right ones should appear. Make sure you pick the right environment (for me I named it "arcgispro-py3-vscode")

If you do it this way you should be able to use conda correctly from a bash shell too.

(base) brian@murre:~$ conda env list
# conda environments:
#
base                  *  C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python 
arcgispro-py3            C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3
arcgispro-py3-vscode     C:\Users\brian\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-py3-vscode

conda activate arcgispro-py3-vscode
(arcgispro-py3-vscode) brian@murre:~$
python --version
Python 3.6.10 :: Anaconda, Inc.

and so on...

ESRI .PYT files are not treated as Python

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29973619/how-to-make-vs-code-to-treat-other-file-extensions-as-certain-language

I put this in my global settings.json file (F1 File:Associations)

   "files.associations": {"*.pyt": "python"}

Remote development

I've now tried this tutorial and learned it works. Python in a Container I got a simple Flask app running and then switched to running even simpler Python scripts in the container.

When I needed to add volume support I discovered this page: VS Code Remote Development It explains the Remote Development extension pack.

• I can use Remote - SSH to treat a remote machine (say, Bellman) as the host for a remote project. (* As recommended by John Sullivan.)
• I can use Remote - Containers to treat a Docker container as the host.
• I can use Remote - WSL too but I don't use Windows Subsystem for Linux currently.

Docker containers

I can keep the code on the local file system or in the container.

My first tests I used the Dockerfile to load my code into the image. It worked fine.

More options:

• clone from github into a running container
• keep code in a volume mounted on the container

Using a volume seems to make the most sense to me. In that setting I can still easily use command line git.

There is a sample based on python, it starts a Debian container and puts a Bash prompt into a Terminal window. It connects when you do F5. Your code is accessible on the local filesystem and in the mounted volume in the container.

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-try-python