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First of all, thanks for your interest!

> VSCode has no idea about your env because it's effectively non-local.

This is an issue that I'm aware of, and I actually didn't think about a possible solution yet. Currently, it is in a VERY early stage, but I wanted to share it to get feedback from the community and how much interest the project could raise.

The only things that I thought were adding support for example for aliasing of some commands such as running `flake8` will actually call `flake8` inside the container. But it's still very fuzzy in my head.

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Not sure how hard this would be, instead of running "flake8 blabla", one can run "docker run bla bla". Or even docker exec bla bla if you have the container already running. And by "you run" I mean vscode does that for you, via an extension.

That could be an idea, so in practice, you move the responsibility to the editor which I think is actually the correct thing to do. Regarding VSCode specifically I don't know, as I don't use it.

This is almost exactly how Pycharm works with testing/auto complete/coverage.

It has support to use a a particular interpreter, specific virtual env, or it lets you say “my interpreter is inside this docker container”, which is even allowed to be on a remote host (although I’ve always used docker running locally).

I find using pycharm with remote docker painful. If you need unusual docker arguments not included in the pycharm Gui, it sucks.

They did a good job but it doesn't seem complete yet.

What I've seen around this last days, and seems that is not an easy feature to implement, is providing Python the posibility of live debugging (Something that, for instance, PHP has long ago acquired with xDebug). Im not saying one is better than the other, I'm not going into the discussion "print is better than live" (Which I don't agree with, BTW). I just find it amusing that a language as mature as Python does not have this.

Would vim or emacs remote editing options work? Another option is to use an editor that has a server/client model. And for VSCode there is always code-server or a similar project that runs vscode remotely.

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