If I run the following code in a Julia (1.12.1) terminal, all fine: using Pkg cd(@__DIR__) Pkg.activate(;temp=true) Pkg.add("CondaPkg") # only once import CondaPkg # only once CondaPkg.add("ezodf") # only once Pkg.add("PythonCall") using PythonCall const ez = pyimport("ezodf") dest_doc =…

I managed to get a screenshot before it went off: [Screenshot from 2026-04-10 16-15-01] EDIT: In Jupyter Notebook (in VSCode) it works: [image]

Claude says: The stacktrace is very clear. The crash is caused by PythonCall + a Python library (ezodf) interacting badly inside the VS Code Julia process. What’s happening The crash originates here (top of your code): const ez = pyimport(“ezodf”) dest_doc = ez.newdoc(doctype=“ods”, filename=“…

I don’t know much about how VS Code works, I know I have to disable a setting to turn off auto-activating conda environments with every terminal (even Julia REPL ones). If you just try to open a new REPL in VS Code, do you see anythig about conda activation? If so, maybe disable that setting, which …

I have disabled all the extensions (including Python) other than Julia but I still have this behaviour

This is super odd… in another machine (same Ubuntu 24.04 os) works fine, in my machine I still have the crash after the atomic bomb equivalent of completely deleting the .julia folder..

Whenever I have issues that are specific to VSCode I make sure that I am not using an outdated version of the application. Even though the extensions update, the application might get outdated with time, causing incompatibility with extensions. Try to install the exact same version of VSCode you ha…

Crash only in VSCode

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sylvaticus April 10, 2026, 2:18pm 2

I managed to get a screenshot before it went off:

EDIT: In Jupyter Notebook (in VSCode) it works:

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Crash only in VSCode

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