isort crashed five times...

[thistlillo]

Whenever I start VSC on my Windows 10 Pro notebook and connect to a remote linux server via the remote-ssh extension I get the message shown in the screenshot below:

Even if it says that it crashed five times in the last three minutes, this message is shown as soon as VSC connects to the remote server. isort is version v2022.6.0.

I uninstalled all the Microsoft python extensions, deleted the folders ~/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.* and resintalled everything but the problem is still here.

Version: 1.73.1 (user setup)
Commit: 6261075646f055b99068d3688932416f2346dd3b
Date: 2022-11-09T04:27:29.066Z
Electron: 19.0.17
Chromium: 102.0.5005.167
Node.js: 16.14.2
V8: 10.2.154.15-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19043
Sandboxed: No

[jtamyrc]

I got the same error

There is the log from isort.

Name: isort
Module: isort
Python extension loading
Waiting for interpreter from python extension.
Python extension loaded
  File "/home/vscode/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.isort-2022.6.0/bundled/tool/server.py", line 4
    from __future__ import annotations
    ^
SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined
[Info  - 8:47:31 AM] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
  File "/home/vscode/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.isort-2022.6.0/bundled/tool/server.py", line 4
    from __future__ import annotations
    ^
SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined
[Info  - 8:47:31 AM] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
  File "/home/vscode/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.isort-2022.6.0/bundled/tool/server.py", line 4
    from __future__ import annotations
    ^
SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined
[Info  - 8:47:31 AM] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
  File "/home/vscode/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.isort-2022.6.0/bundled/tool/server.py", line 4
    from __future__ import annotations
    ^
SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined
[Info  - 8:47:31 AM] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
  File "/home/vscode/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.isort-2022.6.0/bundled/tool/server.py", line 4
    from __future__ import annotations
    ^
SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined
[Error - 8:47:31 AM] Connection to server got closed. Server will not be restarted.

[clj]

For some reason the isort server is trying to start with a Python 2 interpreter. If set the isort.interpreter setting to a Python 3 interpreter (e.g. python3) then isort works again.

I get a slightly different error in the console than the one above:

[Info  - 12:39:53 PM] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
[Error - 12:39:53 PM] Connection to server is erroring. Shutting down server.
  File "/home/vscode/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.isort-2022.6.0/bundled/tool/server.py", line 19
    def update_sys_path(path_to_add: str, strategy: str) -> None:
                                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[karthiknadig]

Error on the line from __future__ import annotations means that you are using python version 3.6 or older. We dropped support for this in python extension with version 2022.9.* onwards. There are two options:

[Option1]

If you have to work with python 3.6 or older, downgrade the python extension to 2022.8.*. Then uninstall isort extension.

[Option 2]

Upgrade your python to 3.7 or greater.

[alanhoyle]

@karthiknadig this is quite disappointing. I don't have a choice as to what version of Python that I have available to me on all of the servers I use and legacy code with virtualenvs might have older pythons.

[karthiknadig]

@alanhoyle with the Downgrade option you will get the isort support the old way. Just that it won't give you the organize imports on save feature. you will still be able to use isort.

[alanhoyle]

That's true today, but one presumes that you all aren't just pushing out updates with no other features...

Yes, I get that supporting legacy versions is probably a pain....

[Lexicality]

While I'd love to wave a magic wand and update the version of python being used in our services, I can't.

Does the extension need to run in the project's virtualenv? My system python is 3.8 and I'd be perfectly happy to create a separate 3.11 venv with pyenv if necessary.