Support egg/zip files for IntelliSense

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.27.1
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2018.8.0
• OS and version: OS X 10.13.6
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): conda Python 3.6
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): N/A
• Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: torchvision (installed via conda install pytorch torchvision -c pytorch)

Expected behavior

Expect autocompletion in a buffer after

import torchvision
torchvision.

Actual behavior

Only generic suggestions with the ‘abc’ icon are listed.

It seems intellisense isn’t finding the torchvision package. It looks like torchvision configures itself via a .pth file:

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages $ cat torchvision.pth
./torchvision-0.2.1-py3.6.egg

which results in the following sys.path from a Python session (note the special entry for ‘torchvision-0.2.1-py3.6.egg’

In [1]: import sys

In [2]: sys.path
Out[2]:
['',
 '/Users/malmaud/anaconda3/bin',
 '/Users/malmaud/anaconda3/lib/python36.zip',
 '/Users/malmaud/anaconda3/lib/python3.6',
 '/Users/malmaud/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload',
 '/Users/malmaud/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages',
 '/Users/malmaud/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages',
 '/Users/malmaud/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/aeosa',
 '/Users/malmaud/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torchvision-0.2.1-py3.6.egg',
 '/Users/malmaud/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/IPython/extensions',
 '/Users/malmaud/.ipython']

Perhaps VSCode isn’t accounting for the pth file modifying sys.path when it searches for torchvision?

[brettcannon]

I’ve verified it’s because of the .egg installation since it’s a zip file and the language server doesn’t support zip files yet. I’ve filed an issue upstream for it.

[MikhailArkhipov]

LS 0.4.17+