Feature request: Quick Create uses the active global Python interpreter version

[hunterhogan]

Status quo

1. Select Python Environments extension.
2. Select Environment Managers view.
3. Select Create Environment.
4. May select Quick Create.

On my system, Quick Create seems to choose the most recent not-freethreaded version of Python in the global environment, which is probably implemented with something like getting a list of versions, discarding freethreaded versions, and choosing the highest minor version value.

Change

Have Quick Create use the active global environment, which would be 3.13 in my case, but could be freethreaded, for example, for other users.

C:\apps\mapFolding>py -0
 -V:3.14t         Python 3.14 (64-bit, freethreaded)
 -V:3.14          Python 3.14 (64-bit)
 -V:3.13 *        Python 3.13 (64-bit)
 -V:3.12          Python 3.12 (64-bit)
 -V:3.11          Python 3.11 (64-bit)
 -V:3.10          Python 3.10 (64-bit)
 -V:3.9           Python 3.9 (64-bit)

Kudos

The Python Environments extension has improved dramatically and has completely displaced my batch files.

[eleanorjboyd]

Hi! So glad to hear that the envs ext has improved your setup! Will mark this as a feature request to get community feedback, thanks

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 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.

[eleanorjboyd]

oops forgot to mark it as such - it will now start its 60 days to get upvotes