Jupyter notebook support not finding the correct cwd

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.33.1 (Tried with both anaconda installation and debian package installation)
• Extension version: 2019.4.11987
• OS and version: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.7.3 (Anaconda)
• Type of virtual environment used: conda

Expected behavior

Find the actual path of my python file (/home/theis/code/N_path_intership/PlottingCode/python)

Actual behavior

Debugger does it correctly after adding "cwd": "${fileDirname}" to launch.json, jupyter support doesn’t.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Simply run

#%%

import os
print("Hello World!")
print(os.getcwd())

GIF version

Without "cwd": "${fileDirname}"

With "cwd": "${fileDirname}"

Code of my .json files

launch.json settings.json

[SwimmingTiger]

I have the same issue. ${fileDirname} is the default value of python.dataScience.notebookFileRoot but it is completely useless for the remote jupyter server (even if the remote Jupyter server is actually local).

I noticed that some Untitled*.ipynb were created in the default working directory of the remote jupyter server. So if VSCode is running code in these new notebook files, the working directory will obviously not be correct.

However, I have to use a remote Jupyter server because I need to load pyspark and I haven’t found out how to set up a jupyter startup command in VSCode.

I actually have to start jupyter with the following command:

PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON=jupyter PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON_OPTS="notebook --no-browser" PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3 pyspark

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In the end, I chose to first cd to the directory I wanted and then start the remote Jupyter server. This solves the problem, but is not very convenient.

[rchiodo]

This should be solved when microsoft/vscode-jupyter#827 is fixed