Refresh packages after installation from a terminal

[eleanorjboyd]

Testing #24503

1. activated my venv called .nvenv by hand in terminal
2. install pytest
3. click reload button under .nvenv in the sidebar
4. 🐛 only shows 2 first pkgs
5. in the logs, shows it found all the other ones

2024-12-03 11:16:38.730 [info] Running: uv pip list --python /Users/eleanorboyd/testingFiles/python-ext-tester/.nvenv/bin/python
2024-12-03 11:16:38.744 [info] Package            Version
------------------ -------
exceptiongroup     1.2.2
importlib-metadata 6.7.0
iniconfig          2.0.0
packaging          24.0
pip                20.1.1
pluggy             1.2.0
pytest             7.4.4
setuptools         47.1.0
tomli              2.0.1
typing-extensions  4.7.1
zipp               3.15.0

here you can also see pip list gets a different answer

[karthiknadig]

You have to refresh packages specifically. Terminal installs are not currently detected, but we could enable this in the future. Reloading environment does not automatically refresh packages as it can be an expensive operation, if there are lot of environments it can take significantly more time.

Pressing this should get you the latest packages:

[karthiknadig]

Verification steps:

1. Open a project with a venv set
2. Find and expand the packages node for the venv from environments views
3. Install any package from the terminal using python -m pip install attrs
4. Packages view should update after installation completes.

[meganrogge]

@karthiknadig is this the packages view? If not, how do I focus it? if so, is it expected that attrs is unchecked here?

[karthiknadig]

This is the view:

But, I suspect that python was not activated in your case. The view you are seeing also should have attrs ticked.

A good way to test is python -c "import sys;print(sys.executable)" this should print python from your venv

[meganrogge]

It's activated for me in that env

[meganrogge]

Not seeing it here either

[karthiknadig]

That is not the right env.
for you case it should have been <workspace>/.venv/bin/python