API to create Python environment

[DonJayamanne]

We'd like the ability to create a Python environment from within the Jupyter extension kernel picker .
Currently we're doing this by invoking the command 'python.createEnvironment'

If this is an approved API, then fine.
Else please could you provide us with an API, and allow us (Jupyter extension) to use this as an interim solution.

[brettcannon]

You can use the "Create Environment" command for now but do note that long-term plans may see it moved out to its own extension. We are entertaining the idea of having environment management live in its own extension(s) and to provide an extension template to help other tools like Hatch have their own extension that provide equivalent features. In that situation the command wouldn't be in the core extension but in its own pip/venv extension or conda extension, and so there's wouldn't be a centralized API that would generically handle environment creation.

[eleanorjboyd]

this will be handled by the python environments extension now and it does have an API or this