requirements didn't get automatically downloaded by extension in marketplace

[allisonChilton]

Python debugger wouldn't start even after several reinstalls and reboots. I finally traced the problem back to this line:

C:\Python37\python.exe c:\Users\allis\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2019.10.41019\pythonFiles\ptvsd_folder_name.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\allis\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2019.10.41019\pythonFiles\ptvsd_folder_name.py", line 53, in <module> ptvsd_folder_name() File "c:\Users\allis\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2019.10.41019\pythonFiles\ptvsd_folder_name.py", line 22, in ptvsd_folder_name with open(REQUIREMENTS, "r", encoding="utf-8") as reqsfile: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\Users\\allis\\.vscode\\extensions\\ms-python.python-2019.10.41019\\requirements.txt'

Manually adding the requirements.txt from the github repo fixed the issue

[kimadeline]

Hi @allisonChilton 👋 Thank you for reporting this issue, investigating it and adding the workaround! requirements.txt is indeed not shipped in the extension package, so we'll have to add a fallback.

[karthiknadig]

For anyone looking, the workaround is to add requirements.txt file with this content:

jedi==0.15.1
parso==0.5.1
isort==4.3.21
ptvsd==5.0.0a5
pyparsing==2.4.0
six==1.12.0
packaging==19.2

to this location on windows:
%USERPROFILE%/.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2019.10.41019\

or this location on Linux/Mac:
$HOME/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.10.41019/

[beaukinstler]

For anyone looking, the workaround is to add requirements.txt file with this content:

jedi==0.15.1
parso==0.5.1
isort==4.3.21
ptvsd==5.0.0a5
pyparsing==2.4.0
six==1.12.0
packaging==19.2

to this location on windows:
%USERPROFILE%/.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2019.10.41019\

or this location on Linux/Mac:
$HOME/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.10.41019/

Here's a link to the file in the repo, just to add another source of reference.
requirements.txt