Run Selection/Line in xxx be more smart?

When we execute the command of Run Selection/Line in xxx, it only executes either the current line if nothing is selected or the selection. For example:

dtypes = {
    'date' : 'str',
    'item_code' : 'category',
    'branch_code' : 'category',
    'sale_qty' : 'float',
    'sale_val' : 'float',
    'return_qty' : 'float',
    'return_val' : 'float'
}

When I put my cursor at the first line, it would attempt to run dtypes = { only. But in the other IDEs such as RStudio, it’s a little smart, it intelligently knows that the current line is part of a multiline statement and runs the whole statement.

Thanks.

[andycraig]

I’d love this block-detection functionality so I’m going to have a try at creating an extension to provide it. My plan is to use the Python Extension Template and make it compatible with both the VS Code Jupyter and VS Code Python extensions.

In the meantime, if there’s any move towards providing this functionality within the VS Code Jupyter or VS Code Python extensions themselves, please let me know as I’d very happily leave it to the pros!

[cbrnr]

This would be a great feature. FWIW, maybe looking at how other extensions do it might help. For example, the Julia extension uses Shift+Enter, and the R extension uses cmd+Enter to run multiline statements without any selection.