Extension interferes with Julia (and other extensions launching terminals)

[vargonis]

See the (closed!) issue #8241 (comment). I tried the proposed solution and the behavior I get is that now whenever I run a line in a python script, a REPL is launched using /path/to/conda/env/python. This does seem to work for my current environment, but based on the information I see in this discussion, this will not always work. I wonder why the REPL is launched with /path/to/conda/env/python, instead of something like conda activate env && python.

[brettcannon]

I wonder why the REPL is launched with /path/to/conda/env/python, instead of something like conda activate env && python.

The issue with conda activate is it can take so long that your text ends up in the terminal before that command completes, so it's a race condition.

You can always launch the terminal manually first and get it set up before having lines sent to the REPL. We are also actively working on improving our terminal activation by setting the various environment variables appropriately directly in the terminal launch itself (no ETA et on that new feature, though).