Treat SConstruct/SConscript files as python automatically

[philosophicles]

SCons is a popular software build tool, a little like GNU Make, created with python.

By default and convention, it uses build definition files named SConstruct and SConscript in a source code directory hierarchy. These files are basically python scripts, albeit with some SCons-specific idioms.

VSCode should automatically recognize these special filenames and apply python language support, in much the same way that a file named Makefile is already recognized as special.

I am aware that it's easy to define this in Settings for a particular install of VS Code, but these filenames are quite universal and unlikely to ever be used for something other than SCons.

[aaronfranke]

It also uses SCsub files as well, to allow splitting the SCons code into multiple files and for uses such as modules.

[mwichmann]

It also uses SCsub files as well, to allow splitting the SCons code into multiple files and for uses such as modules.

SCsub is not a standard SCons thing. You can call the subsidiary files anything you want, as calling them is done by passing a filename to a method call, SConscript is just the conventional name, but using it is very common.

[aeschli]

I'm not a Pythpn expert. Can you give me the complete list of filenames I should add to Python?
SConstruct and SConscript ?

[philosophicles]

@aeschli yes, confirmed, just these two filenames please:

1. SConstruct
2. SConscript

(Rationale: both the above are referenced many times in the official SCons documentation. SCsub is not referenced at all in same.)

[bdbaddog]

Here's the default SConstruct file name variations from the manpage:
( https://scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-man.html )

When invoked, scons searches for a file named SConstruct (it also checks alternate spellings Sconstruct, sconstruct, SConstruct.py Sconstruct.py and sconstruct.py in that order)

[aeschli]

I added the two file names above and would leave it at that until we get requests. Hope that's ok.

[bdbaddog]

@aeschli - Yup. Just figured I'd paste the definitive answer here for future reference. Most build systems actually use SConstruct and SConscript. Having VSCode recognize they're python files will certainly lessen the desire/need for SConstruct.py, etc.. Thanks!