Vscode-jupyter: Cannot copy outputs from Python Interactive anymore

[nevr1106]

Bug: Notebook Editor, Interactive Window, Editor cells

Steps to cause the bug to occur

1. print() anything in the Python Interactive window

2. try to copy the printed content

3. paste in anywhere

4. the content being pasted is not what was copied

Actual behavior

Expected behavior

Copy and paste in the Python Interactive window was working before.

Your Jupyter and/or Python environment

_Please provide as much info as you readily know_

• Jupyter server running: Local
• Extension version: 20YY.MM.#####-xxx
• VS Code version: 1.47.2
• Setting python.jediEnabled: false
• Setting python.languageServer: Microsoft
• Python and/or Anaconda version: python 3.7.7 / conda 4.8.3
• OS: Windows 64-bit
• Virtual environment: conda

Developer Tools Console Output

TMScopeRegistry.ts:45 Overwriting grammar scope name to file mapping for scope source.yaml.
Old grammar file: file:///c%3A/Users/PS/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft%20VS%20Code/resources/app/extensions/yaml/syntaxes/yaml.tmLanguage.json.
New grammar file: file:///c%3A/Users/PS/.vscode/extensions/redhat.vscode-yaml-0.9.1/syntaxes/yaml.tmLanguage.json
register @ TMScopeRegistry.ts:45
s @ TMGrammarFactory.ts:73
_getOrCreateGrammarFactory @ abstractTextMateService.ts:246
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(anonymous) @ rpcProtocol.ts:105
fire @ event.ts:587
fire @ ipc.net.ts:453
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[nevr1106]

Now I figured out how this issue works.
If I put the cursor in the editor window, the printed content in the interactive window cannot be copied.
If I put the cursor anywhere else, the printed content in the interactive window can be copied correctly. But once I paste the content to the interactive command box, it will also show up in the terminal as well.

[cpbotha]

I have run into exactly this behaviour.

In most cases, I am unable to copy cell output from Python Interactive.

However, depending on where I deliberately put my cursor before I attempt the copy, it might work.

The desired behavior is of course that if I select something in the Python Interactive, it means my focus and cursor is really there, so copy should copy!

[InvisOn]

I am also experiencing this issue.

[nevr1106]

As an immediate bypass solution: click the terminal once so that the cursor shows up there. Then copy & paste from interactive window will work as normal.
Like this:

[InvisOn]

As an immediate bypass solution: click the terminal once so that the cursor shows up there. Then copy & paste from interactive window will work as normal.

This works for me. Terminal here meaning the integrated shell terminal in VS code that you can bring up with ctrl+`, not the terminal of the Python interactive tab.

[JPIvan]

microsoft/vscode-jupyter#767 may be related, as it also describes failed copy from integrated terminal output.

[greazer]

Dupe of microsoft/vscode-jupyter#767

[csaba-f-kiss]

Having similar issues with copy-paste.

For me, the only time, copy from the Python Interactive window works OK, is when the cursor previously was in the Terminal window.

Try these steps, to reproduce a strange behavior:

1. Open a python script and run some cells, to have some printout in the Python Interactive window. Also open a new text window, to copy text into from the Python Interactive window.

2. Click in the python script, somewhere in the middle of a text line, then click into the Python Interactive window. Select some text and "copy" with Ctrl+C.

3. Paste into the (empty) new text editor, to see what was copied. Surprisingly the text pasted is from the position in the python script, where the cursor was, before you clicked into the Python Interactive window to copy from.

Looks like, the user selects some text in the Python Interactive window, but the copied text actually is taken from the python scripts window (text buffer). Might be some mixing up of text cursors in the 2 windows?

[dostov]

a solution for me: open an editor (like sublime), then drag the selected text to it