I'm encountering some very bizarre behaviour that I've tried to simplify as much as possible. I have a project laid out similar to below. Whenever I edit any file in the project, the file /localdisk/my-project/log.log get created automatically. If I delete the file and re-edit the code the file is created again. This happened within a few seconds. This only seems to happen when another module imports the utils file, and not all modules that import utils cause this behaviour. For example a file named foo_test.py would cause it, but a file with the same contents names foo.py would not. # utils.py import logging DEFAULT_LOG_FILE = '/localdisk/my-project/log.log' file_handler = logging.FileHandler(DEFAULT_LOG_FILE) . # foo_test.py import utils I'm using VSCode 1.97.2, Pylance 2025.2.1, Python 3.12. I'm absolutely stumped by what's going on. I don't know if there's some setting I've accidentally enabled or some optimization behind the scenes trying to create possible files ahead of time. Any ideas would be appreciated. Continue reading...
