Quick fix support for installing missing pip libraries

[tanhakabir]

Similar to TS support in VSCode, It would be great to have buttons and a UI to click to install missing pip libraries.

Like this:

[brettcannon]

This is actually surprisingly tricky as a general feature as Python doesn't have an equivalent package.json or something where we can record the installation. And if you don't record the installation somewhere then you just lost reproducibility.

Now if you're asking we try to install any packages that someone listed in their project, that still is a bit of work as that's a per-tool thing, whether we support editable installs, UX for installing extras (which is a specific concept in Python packaging), etc.

Not saying it isn't a good idea, but I did want to explain that the scope of this is way bigger than what TS gets away with. 😉

[tanhakabir]

Ah that makes sense! Thank you for the run down!

Yeah I was just thinking of something to just install the needed library in the same env. Maybe no actual swiggles for errors since there's no package.json but maybe if you run your program and you see the error for missing import, having a one click solution to run pip install for you

[brettcannon]

That's also a little tricky because package names do not necessarily match project names on PyPI (e.g. you import https://pypi.org/project/scikit-learn/ as sklearn). While it's the common case that the names match, it isn't unheard of either.

[tanhakabir]

Hmm you're right that's a good point!

[brettcannon]

Moved to #17230