Duplicate environments after fixing python

Issue Type: Bug

Behaviour

Expected vs. Actual

Expected: the snowflakes environment doesn’t show up twice Actual: the snowflakes environment shows up twice

Steps to reproduce:

1. On Windows, create a new conda environment called snowflakes
2. Rename the python file within that environment to make the extension not be able to find the interpreter
3. Reload the window and reactivate the extension. Confirm that a warning icon shows up next to the snowflakes environment
4. Rename the python file back to python.exe
5. Reload the window and reactivate the extension. Two snowflake environments show up in the interpreter picker

Screenshots

Diagnostic data

• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.10.4
• Type of virtual environment used (e.g. conda, venv, virtualenv, etc.): Conda
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Pylance

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

L’expérience «All» est active
LSP Notebooks experiment is disabled -- not in treatment group
> ~\Miniconda3 info --json
> conda info --json
> ~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> ~\.pyenv\pyenv-win\versions\2.7.16\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> ~\.pyenv\pyenv-win\versions\3.8.10\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> ~\.pyenv\pyenv-win\versions\3.9.4\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> .\.venv1\Scripts\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> ~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python3.7.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> ~\Miniconda3\Scripts\conda.exe info --json
> ~\Miniconda3\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> ~\AppData\Local\Programs\PythonCodingPack\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> ~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
> ~\Miniconda3\condabin\conda.bat info --json
> ~\Miniconda3\envs\snowflakes\python.exe ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\interpreterInfo.py
Chemin de l’interpréteur Python : ~\Miniconda3\envs\snowflakes\python.exe
> ~\Miniconda3\Scripts\conda.exe run -n snowflakes --no-capture-output python ~\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004\pythonFiles\get_output_via_markers.py ~/.vscode-insiders/extensions/ms-python.python-2022.9.11791004/pythonFiles/printEnvVariables.py
Démarrage du serveur de langage Pylance

User Settings

condaPath: "<placeholder>"

languageServer: "Pylance"

formatting
• provider: "black"

experiments
• optInto: ["All"]

Extension version: 2022.9.11791004 VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.69.0-insider (0e3304bca9e862eddc7e437e2bab8a4a4a4f33c9, 2022-06-29T05:20:28.364Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19043 Restricted Mode: No

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz (8 x 1498)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: unavailable_software canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: disabled_software multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: disabled_off rasterization: disabled_software raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: disabled_software video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: unavailable_software webgl2: unavailable_software
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	31.59GB (16.04GB free)
Process Argv	–log trace --crash-reporter-id 504c9256-58c2-451f-8cc0-983584dae98d
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

[karrtikr]

I’m able to reproduce the issue, thanks. Clearing the list using Python: Clear Internal extension cache should help.

This looks like an unnatural occurrence of an already rare scenario (conda environments without python) that is only created by poking behind the scenes. Closing this as attempting to fix it complicates the code quite a bit, and the use-case doesn’t warrant it. If more people run into it we’ll happy to take a look again.

[karrtikr]

FYI we now have a button to support hard refreshing, which clears the cache before refreshing: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/pull/19628. It can be used here.