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A feature I would like is use my VScode against a python programming environment in docker.

The only way I have found this possible is to actually run VSCode itself in docker.

I would also like this. Like the sibling, I use Pycharm for this specific use case (as in 95% of my work is in vscode, and I drop into pycharm when I need remote interpreter support).

The github issue tracking this feature is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/79

Unfortunately there's no major activity on it as of late... but I usually go take a peak every few months and hope...

In my time at Facebook that was the killer feature of Nuclide which switched most people to Atom. Ironically, the remote debugger was based on the Visual Studio Tools for Python one.

I run PyCharm using my docker-compose environment, which works great. A co-worker said he was able to get VSCode working with docker-compose, but the setup wasn't easy. He said something about having to attach to the running docker/python process.

Hi.

Can you elaborate a little more on how you use pycharm with docker-compose and what are the advantages? I am new to all this and I have been using Pycharm quite a lot lately but looking at people’s responses above it feels like I am missing something. Why would you need to connect remotely or where/why does docker fit into this? Isn’t is just an IDE that you install to code/debug?

Sorry in advance if these questions sound a little too primitive.

Thanks.

You can have pycharm on your machine but the actual python interpreter and the dependencies are in a docker container. This means that you don't 1) install python and dependencies needed for your project in your machine directly 2) reuse the docker container setup that is used for say ci and even production deployment while you are doing development.

Do you mean connecting a debugger to run/evaluate code in a Docker container? Because I'm pretty sure VSCode does this... or at least I thought it did. (Or is this a feature reserved to full Visual Studio?)

I was going to post the same comment. This is great but I don't actually know anyone who is running django code outside docker at this point.

same here - although there is a workaround.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/79#issueco...

As an aside, you can easily do this with PyCharm. It even works with vagrant images.

This is true, but unfortunately only for the paid version.

A year subscription for the individual use license from PyCharm is 89.00 for the first year, 71.00 2nd year, 53 3+ years (all prices in USD) so it isn't a major expensive to get a license.

Same here, our whole company is using PyCharm because of this.

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