Use MSYS2 Python interpreters in Windows for interactive development

[dafred94]

I want to use a Python executable shipped with MSYS.
A terminal can be opened as explained here by appending this to settings.json:

"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
        "MSYS2 UCRT": {
            "path": "cmd.exe",
            "args": [
                "/c",
                "C:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64"
            ]
        }
    }

Since I want to use tools that can be installed in MSYS from a Python shipped with MSYS2 (in my case "rsync"), I figured that it would be nice to use that interpreter directly in VSCode to execute files e.g. line by line from the editor.

So I tested the following commands as a "custom Python interpreter":
C:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64 -c "python"
and
cmd.exe /C "C:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64 -c "python""

I had no luck, whatsoever. When I use that line on cmd.exe, the correct MSYS2 Python executable is launched.

Workaround:

1. start a working Python interpreter
2. enter "quit()" to enter its connected cmd prompt
3. enter the C:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64 -c "python" from above
4. it now works

But that workaround is pretty annoying..
Am I doing something wrong here? Or could my workaround be streamlined / be made unneccessary?

[github-actions]

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[brettcannon]

Thank you for submitting your feature request and everyone who considered it! Unfortunately, this issue did not receive enough votes over the allotted time, and so we are closing the issue.