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Build workspace symbol does not work for me since 2019.11.50794

See original GitHub issue

Environment data

VS Code version: XXX
Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2020.2.63072. However it seems that all the version past 2019.11.50794 are affected
OS and version: Fedora 31
Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): I tried this with many different version of python virtualenvs, from 2.7 to 3.7
Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): venv
Jedi or Language Server? (i.e. what is "python.jediEnabled" set to; more info #3977): jedi
Value of the python.languageServer setting: I was only able to find setting python.autoUpdateLanguageServer and it’s set to true

Expected behaviour

The “Build workspace symbol” action should work, at least when called explicitly

Actual behaviour

That action does not work. I inspect the Python output in VS Code and it seems that ctags binary hasn’t been called at all

Steps to reproduce:

I don’t really know how to specifically reproduce it. I just know that I was not using VS Code for a while (stopped in October 2019). Then I came back to it in February 2020 and updated python extension. From that point, “Build workspace symbols” hasn’t been working for me. Here are all the things that I tried:

Disable GitLens extension
Disable all the other extensions except for Python
Reinstall VS Code while also purging all the configuration
I even ran ctags manually but VS Code wouldn’t pick up the generated symbols when I searched for them using Ctrl+T
I tried using different virtualenvs with different python versions, none of them seemed to work

The only thing that worked for me in the end was to iterate through recent version of python extension. I found out that version 2019.11.50794 works for me, while 2020.1.57204 does not. So I’m sticking with 2019.11.50794 for now

This is what happens (or rather does not happen) in 2020.2.63072: not_working

Downgrading to 2019.11.50794: working

Logs

Python output when trying to run “Build workspace symbols” with 2020.2.63072: https://pastebin.com/raw/Fsnc2UEB Python output when running “Build workspace symbols” with 2019.11.50794: https://pastebin.com/raw/CWSd7y3y

If any other output is required, please let me know!