Stuck waiting for prelaunch task - visual-studio-code

Question

I'm trying to run my debug environment as a Poetry session, so I can properly debug encapsulated.
So, my launch.json is straightforward:
{
"name": "Poetry",
"type": "python",
"request": "attach",
"connect": {
"host": "localhost",
"port": 5710
},
"preLaunchTask": "poetryDebugSession",
"localRoot": "${workspaceFolder}"
}
and I adapted my tasks.json to try to launch debugpy in Poetry first (this works if I manually run some code in the terminal)
{
"label": "poetryDebugSession",
"type": "shell",
"command": "poetry",
"args": [
"run",
"python",
"-m",
"debugpy",
"--log-to-stderr",
"--wait-for-client",
"--listen",
"5710",
"${relativeFile}",
"&"
],
"presentation": {
"panel": "dedicated",
"clear": true
},
"group": "test",
"isBackground": true,
"runOptions":{
"instanceLimit": 1
},
// This task is run before the launch.json task. Since it needs to run in the
// background and not wait for completion, though, we need to jump through hoops
"problemMatcher": [
{
"owner": "python",
"fileLocation": "absolute",
"pattern": [
{
"regexp": "^\\s+File \"(.*)\", line (\\d+), in (.*)$",
"file": 1,
"line": 2
},
{
"regexp": "^\\s+(.*)$",
"message": 1
}
],
"background": {
"activeOnStart": true,
"beginsPattern": "^D[0-9\\.: \\+]+wait_for_client",
"endsPattern": ".*",
}
}
]
}
When I start debugging, the task is properly launched, and debugpy gets all the way to the message I am waiting for that I want the preluanch task to be marked as "ready":
> Executing task: poetry run python -m debugpy --log-to-stderr --wait-for-client --listen 5710 d:\path\to\myfile.py <
# stuff
I+00000.344: pydevd is connected to adapter at 127.0.0.1:61443
D+00000.344: wait_for_client()
I could have sworn I had this working last week but as of 1.58.2 after a restart this morning it doesn't progress past wait_for_client() display, so the debugger never attaches. I'm also a little suspicious that ${relativeFile} includes a full path in my output but that probably doesn't matter.
It should be clear from the code above that I derived my initial implementation from https://stackoverflow.com/a/54017304/1877527 , but still no dice.

Answer 1

The debugpy team helped me find an answer:
https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy/issues/676#issuecomment-886041838
{
"name": "Python: Poetry current file",
"type": "python",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${env:USERPROFILE}/.poetry/bin/poetry",
"python": "<path/to/bare/bones/python>",
"args": ["run", "python", "${file}"],
"console": "integratedTerminal",
}
It worked for me even without the python argument, since my primary dev machine just has one active Python installation.