Fix duplicated venv prompt parenthesis

[anthonykim1]

Resolves: #23193 #23184

Resolve duplicated (.venv) prompt for users terminal.
Issue came from: #23080

[AddisonG]

Not sure if I'm just unlucky, but my Mac setup with work, and Ubuntu setup at home, for 2 different projects, are both missing the parenthesis now. So I now get:

venvaddison:~/tmp

Instead of:

(venv) addison:~/tmp

I have no idea if this is related to this issue, but it sure looks like it is.

Python3.13, vscode: 1.93.0, Microsoft Python Extension: v2024.14.0

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EDIT:

Ahh yes, I see. VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT (within the venv/bin/activate script) is no longer set to include parenthesis in new python versions. But nobody seems to realise that, as they're using old versions of python. I might be the first to realise, since I cannot for the life of me find anything on the internet about this.

This appears to be stemming from a lack of communication or understanding between those 2 projects. Or perhaps I'm extremely misguided, and rambling like a fool.

To fix this, you can add this to your settings JSON:

"python.experiments.optOutFrom": ["pythonTerminalEnvVarActivation"],

And then do a hard reload of vscode.

See also my SO post

[Chrisguagliano]

@AddisonG THANK YOU! This has been bugging me for months and never looked into it.

[Chrisguagliano]

@Tyriar the issue that Addison and myself are experiencing might be VSCode related. If I make the update that Addison mentioned, VSCode terminal correctly shows (.venv) but a standard terminal shows double parentheses ((.venv) ) . I am on Ubuntu 22.04, Python 3.10.12, VSCode 1.93.0.

The issue persists on WSL, as well.

[AddisonG]

You're right. I actually didn't check the fix in a normal terminal. It's not related to that file, but that's a hack to fix it.

Good to know someone else is having this issue, not just me. We can suffer together!

I made a ticket, since now I know I'm not going crazy:
#24097

I'm now pretty confident that this is a Vscode problem - not venv.