Not working Ctrl+F5 for a second time

[warpuv]

Nothing happened when you run simple hello world script for a second time without debugging.

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• VSCode Version: Code 1.18.0 (dcee2202709a4f223185514b9275aa4229841aa7, 2017-11-08T21:19:36.079Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.16299
• Extensions: python|ms-|0.8.0

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[Agnpalm]

When I open a Python file without opening a folder I get the error

Cannot read property 'openConfigFile' of undefined

when I try to run a file through ctrl+F5. If I instead open the folder where the file is and press ctrl+F5 VS Code opens a launch.json-file. After I've saved that and press ctrl+F5 again, there's a progress bar in the debug activity bar, but the code doesn't seem to run. I can't find a way to stop the progress bar other than restart VSCode.

If I instead press F5 to run with debugging the debug bar appears, and the program is stopped. If I press F5 for continue the code runs and exits as expected. This works again and again, at least until I press ctrl+F5 again.

After pressing ctrl+F5 and the progress bar is active pressing F5 does nothing, but selecting and running a debug configuration from the status bar does start the debugger again. After finishing the progress bar is still active though.

All this is using a one line program, print('Hello world')

As a workaround you can bind python.execInTerminal to something, or run Python Run in terminal from the command palette.

Hopefully now that Microsoft have hired @DonJayamanne (congrats!) and made this an official extension they will make it a priority to make it easy to run Python scripts without having a working folder or installing more extensions like Code runner.

[DonJayamanne]

@Agnpalm

Cannot read property 'openConfigFile' of undefined

Please could you provide a screenshot of the above error.
Also, please could you provide the details of your OS and Python Version.

[Agnpalm]

@DonJayamanne sure:

Windows version: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.19]
Python version: 3.6.2 (v3.6.2:5fd33b5, Jul 8 2017, 04:57:36) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]

From the developer console:

The last error is from running Start without debug (Ctrl+F5), the others are there when opening a .py file. Except the Python 0.8.0 extension the only other extension installed is the Jupyter 1.1.4. This is a fresh install.

[DonJayamanne]

@Agnpalm The error 'openConfigFile' of undefined is a VS Code issue (#38674). However not being able to run without debugging is specific to this extension.

[da1z]

I still have this issue on Mac OS. Run without debugging does not work for second time.

[DonJayamanne]

We haven't released a new version yet, Please wait for the next release, we plan on releasing something next week.