No intellisense on vanilla WSL Ubuntu setup

Fresh Windows setup (on Parallels, but that shouldn’t matter) Install Ubuntu LTS in WSL on Windows By default, python3 exists… Install VS Code Stable and then the Remote - WSL extension In the WSL terminal, create a folder and then open code on it (code .) Create a python file Type in print and try to get Completions/IntelliSense

Result: No IntelliSense

I see this in the dev tools console:

workbench.main.js:238 [Extension Host] Error Python Extension: 2019-07-03 15:42:50: stderr jediProxy Error (stderr) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "completion.py", line 645, in <module>
    import jedi
  File "lib/python/jedi/__init__.py", line 41, in <module>
    from jedi.api import Script, Interpreter, set_debug_function, \
  File "lib/python/jedi/api/__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
    from jedi.api.environment import InterpreterEnvironment
  File "lib/python/jedi/api/environment.py", line 14, in <module>
    from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'

If I add "python.jediEnabled": false to my settings.json everything starts to work.

So out of the box, we don’t get completions on WSL. Is the new language service going to be enabled by default soon?

[chrisdias]

ok if i install jedi i get IntelliSense without having to set "python.jediEnabled": false.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install jedi

Maybe this needs to go into the extension readme…

[luabud]

This was fixed on the latest release. Please try it out and we’ll reopen in case you still see this issue. Thanks!