Python Snowflake Connector Absent with Positron Ver. 2025.10.0?

[rewinter799]

Hi folks! First-time commenter but big fan of Positron and this community of users.

One of my most-anticipated Positron features has been Snowflake support into the Connections pane, so I was excited to update to Ver. 2025.10.0 (see #8580 at Changelog). Yet clicking on the "New Connection" button still only shows these three options:

I was hesitant to report this as a bug since I might well be missing something obvious, so I wanted to source the community first. Has anyone else updated to the latest installation but isn't seeing explicit Snowflake support? Many thanks!

Here's my "About" info for reference:

Positron Version: 2025.10.0 (user setup) build 199
Code - OSS Version: 1.103.0
Commit: 81d0c98
Date: 2025-10-09T17:54:48.567Z
Electron: 37.2.3
Chromium: 138.0.7204.100
Node.js: 22.17.0
V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

[dfalbel]

Hi @rewinter799

Thanks for reaching out!

We are still missing the UI to create new connections with snowflake. However, connections created within the Python session should be inspectable by running %connection_show con

Eg:

import snowflake.connector

# con = snowflake.connector.connect(
#     account='<account>',
#     authenticator='externalbrowser',
#     user='<email>'
# )

con = snowflake.connector.connect(
    account='<account>',
    user='<user>',
    password='<paswd>,
    warehouse="<warehouse>"
)

%connection_show con

Or by clicking the small database icon in the connections pane.

[juliasilge]

Thank you for this report, @rewinter799! 🙌

• I have opened Provide Connections Pane UI for Python Snowflake connector #9961 to track and prioritize this feature request for the UI component.
• The workaround provided by @dfalbel should work in the meantime.

[rewinter799]

Thank you @juliasilge and @dfalbel! Daniel's fix works perfectly. But I'm never one to complain about a curated UI, so I'm grateful for the new ticket and will stay tuned!