REPL doesn’t work when the python file is in nested folder

[rebornix]

Type: Bug

My python file is in a sub folder nested/test.py and there is a csv file next to it nested/data.csv, however if I try to load the file with relative path "data.csv", it only works if I use "nested/data.csv".

I was expecting the relative path to just work. However if this is as designed, I would love to have a setting to set the cwdto the parent folder of the python file when using it in REPL.

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[anthonykim1]

This is weird - does print(os.getcwd()) yield / for you as well? Ideally it should be the workspace path.. trying to think of why we only get this in the new native repl vs. terminal repl.

[saurabhbikram]

This is weird - does print(os.getcwd()) yield / for you as well? Ideally it should be the workspace path.. trying to think of why we only get this in the new native repl vs. terminal repl.

I can confirm i have the same issue, and print(os.getcwd()) does indeed yield /

setting "python.REPL.sendToNativeREPL":false i get the correct working directory in the 'old' terminal.

[Anstetten]

This is weird - does print(os.getcwd()) yield / for you as well? Ideally it should be the workspace path.. trying to think of why we only get this in the new native repl vs. terminal repl.

I am facing the same issue. It spawns in the wrong working directory.
It "thinks" it is in the right directory (provides autocomplete for stuff like import backend.components.blabla) but importing anything fails.

[anthonykim1]

Hey folks, good news here: working to get this resolved this month :)
As in directory context for REPL should be set properly when users launch REPL, similar to how terminal is able to pull up current working directory.
If user is inside multi-root directory we would show options for user to select which directory to use, but otherwise in a more common one workspace directory, we would automatically just set that as a cwd.

Will let you all know once I merge in the changes so you can try it all out. Thanks!

[anthonykim1]

@rebornix As far as settings to straight up let the users set their cwd for REPL, I think that would be feature request.
I think the default directory/workspace behavior should be same as Terminal as a baseline regardless.

Not too sure about the setting as folks could just

os.chdir(new_dir)

and set their cwd if they want to override the default workspace directory setting.

[anthonykim1]

Let's track the bug here: #23821
and I'll change this to feature request as in wanting for explicit setting to set directory for REPL even in single workspace scenario.