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possible to effectively get something like "jupyter.debugJustMyCode": 'sometimes true'?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter, python
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing jupyter.debugJustMyCode setting and how settings.json controls stepping into Python dependencies. Compare the desired behavior for matplotlib/axes/_axes.py with the excluded ipykernel/* paths. Done means documenting or implementing a supported way to include selected site-packages while excluding ipykernel.

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Description

Suppose I want to set:

"jupyter.debugJustMyCode": true,

so that I can get into things like:

/home/vscode/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py

but I don't care about things like:

/home/vscode/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ipykernel/*

Is there any way to get this behavior in settings.json?

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