How does pyvenv tracking work in Spacemacs?

How does pyvenv tracking work in Spacemacs?

By default Spacemacs scans for a virtual environment and sets the local pyvenv-workon or the pyvenv-activate variables on visiting a file, but switches virtual environment on every change of focus using the local variables. The buffer tracking behavior can be disabled by setting the value of the customizable variable pyvenv-tracking-mode to nil.

How does Spacemacs check for an existing directory?

Finally it checks if it finds an existing directory with the name of the first line in the pyvenv-workon-home directory. By default Spacemacs scans for a virtual environment and sets the local pyvenv-workon or the pyvenv-activate variables on visiting a file, but switches virtual environment on every change of focus using the local variables.

Which is the default formatter for Python layer Spacemacs?

One of YAPF (the default), black or lsp may be selected as the formatter, via python-formatter, as yapf, black or lsp respectively. Alternatively the lsp formatter will be automatically chosen if the layer lsp is used and you did not specify any value for python-formatter .

Where is the runtime ID for Python layer Spacemacs?

Paraphrasing the instructions provided by the author of the lsp-python-ms package: where is one of the runtime IDs supported by dotnet core. One of linux-x64, osx-x64, win10-x64 should cover most use cases. The default package configuration assumes the executable is located in a folder included in your system path.

How does Spacemacs set the virtual environment path?

Spacemacs scans the project directory for a pattern .venv. If the found .venv is a directory then it sets that directory as the local virtual environment path. If the .venv pattern is a file then it checks if its first line matches an existing path and if so, it sets it as the local virtual environment path.

Can you use Spacemacs as an IDE for Python?

It’s been really frustrating trying to get spacemacs to work so far. I’ve grown to really love it – coming from vim – for its capabilities in manipulating and navigating text, but it’s just been so hard to get it do behave like an IDE for python that I’m actually about to give up. (caveat – I’m working on a windows machine.)