Test public APIs for python environments

[karthiknadig]

Refs: #17905

• anyOS: @rchiodo
• anyOS: @DonJayamanne

Complexity: 5

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Requirements

1. Use Insiders build of the python extension

Test APIs exposed via IProposedExtensionAPI

See IProposedExtensionAPI for APIs to test.

vscode-python/src/client/apiTypes.ts

Line 115 in fa16970

export interface IProposedExtensionAPI {

Example usage:
Copy over contents of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/blob/fa169707810b405e8b227429e3a060959eab8ffb/src/client/apiTypes.ts as needed.

const extension = extensions.getExtension('ms-python.python');
if (extension) {
    if (!extension.isActive) {
        await extension.activate();
    }
    const api: IExtensionApi & IProposedExtensionAPI = extension.exports as IExtensionApi & IProposedExtensionAPI;
    if (api.environment) {
        interpreterPath = await api.environment.getActiveInterpreterPath();
    }
}

[rchiodo]

LGTM except for the path based ness of it. Tried on Windows and WSL2

[DonJayamanne]

Tested on WSL2