Search and replace goes into all modules in site-packages

[therealzoomgod]

Visual Studio 2022

When using search and replace in a project with a python virtual environment it goes into the installed modules.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a virtual environment
2. Install some modules
3. Make a folder in site-packages for your own package you are working on.
4. Use search and replace and it will go into every package under site-packages (using replace all is then a disaster)

Expected behavior I expect search and replace to work only on source code that is actually part of my project

disclaimer I don't recall having this issue in 2017 or 2019 but not sure I ever made my own module in site-packages in a virtual environment as part of my project.

Thanks

[StellaHuang95]

Hi there, the File types textbox can exclude files. Any path or file type prefixed with the “!” character will be excluded from the search. For instance, you can add !*\site_package* to the file types list to exclude any files in a site_package folder. Could you give it a try and let us know if that works? Thanks!

[therealzoomgod]

This project is a python package so to test while coding it I need it in the site-packages of the virtual environment. Using a filter means I would have to exclude every other package in installed. If I filter site-packages it would ignore my code then.

Is there some other setting so it only searches files that are actually part of your project ? This should be doable since all files part of the project are listed in the VS project file.

Thanks

[StellaHuang95]

Hi @therealzoomgod, unfortunately, I don’t think we have that capability. That would be a new feature. But thanks for bringing this up! 😊 The walkaround for now is probably do the search and replace twice, one in the folder you made in the site-package, and do another search to exclude the site package folder.