VSCode syntax highlighting for custom shebang

Question

At work we run python under a custom environment, and thus we use a non-standard shebang. I tested that VSCode recognizes python files without a .py extension if they h

Answer 1

I work on VSCode.

The shebang mapping is defined by firstLine in the extension grammar contributions:

    "languages": [{
        "id": "python",
        "extensions": [ ".py", ".rpy", ".pyw", ".cpy", ".gyp", ".gypi" ],
        "aliases": [ "Python", "py" ],
        "firstLine": "^#!/.*\\bpython[0-9.-]*\\b",
        "configuration": "./language-configuration.json"
    }]

There is no setting to control this, but you could use file.associations to map these files to python directly.

Your specific example also seems like a bug to me. We currently only use the first line pattern if the entire line matches, which seems odd. I've opened an issue to investigate this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/21533