Cannot attach debug for python

[SpaceBob22]

Type: Bug

Behaviour

When clicking the Python Debugger: Remote Attach from the choices offered, it constantly pops up a dialog with no text and 2 buttons:
Open 'launch.json'
Cancel

The launch.json is properly set as intructed in the VSCode online documentation

Steps to reproduce:

1. Installed debugpy with pip
2. Added import and setup in my module to listen, with proper address and port, to remote debuggin requests.
3. created launch.json in .vscode folder of the project with all the usual settings from the online documentation.
4. launch the script from the software's python interpreter. I do get the output from debugpy saying it's listening to connection in the output logs.
5. click on the Python Debugger: Remote Attach from the choices offered in VSCode.
6. get the dialog.

Diagnostic data

launch.json configuration

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Python Debugger: Remote Attach Unreal",
            "type": "debugpy",
            "request": "attach",
            "connect": {
                "host": "localhost",
                "port": 5678
            },
            "pathMappings": [
                {
                    "localRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
                    "remoteRoot": "${workspaceFolder}"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

Nothing

Output for Python Debugger in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python Debugger)

Nothing

Extension version: 2024.14.0
VS Code version: Code 1.96.4 (cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba, 2025-01-16T00:16:19.038Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
Modes:

• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.11.8
• Type of virtual environment used (e.g. conda, venv, virtualenv, etc.): Unknown

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700 (24 x 2112)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	63.75GB (36.16GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id d15e58b0-cba1-4fd1-af31-8677d45bb75e
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

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[eleanorjboyd]

Can you send a screenshot of this dialog? Also in the run and debug tab, does anything change / appear under the "call stack"?