Add the ability to copy the python import path to the clipboard

[brettcannon]

Discussed in #16926

^{Originally posted by jarshwah August 10, 2021}
I want to be able to right click a file and copy the import path to that file
so that I may paste it into a terminal/repl to gain access to those functions without having to type a long import path

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yardensachs.copy-python-path is an existing extension that does this, but I think it should be baked into the official plugin.

For context, a project I work on can have modules and packages nested quite deeply (10 or so levels deep). I often have to type out an extremely long import string during exploratory sessions, and would love to be able to copy a path from a file I'm looking at directly into the terminal.

[jarshwah]

Apologies I had meant to respond to the discussion and then it dropped off my tab list/radar.

To answer your question around algorithm, I had the following (perhaps incorrect) assumptions in mind:

1. The language server knows what the root of the project is in most cases (pyproject, vscode config, etc) so init files don't need to be inspected to find the root
2. Given the language server knows the root, traverse from current file to root, and that is more than likely your import path
3. If it can't be resolved that way, repeat for all known roots (pythonpath, etc)

I have very little understanding of the language server implementation and capabilities, and haven't spent nearly as much time thinking about these strategies as someone more familiar. I would not be surprised if I was way off the mark.

[brettcannon]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 5 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[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.