Python Virtual Envrironment in VS Code: Select the Appropriate Python Interpreter

#Python #VSCode

Setting up a python virtual environment in VS Code can be tricky, especially selecting the python interpreter appropriate for your virtual environment.

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[shaiebtanweer]

Bless you. This really helped me. Such a simple thing of not selecting the parent project directory, caused me a world of pain. This is the only video I have found that explicitly mentions this. I owe you a coffee. Top man. thanks.

[satishverma]

My VS Code kept displaying "Python: Select Interpreter resulted in an error".

It took me 4 days to resolve this issue. I found this video on the 4th day.

Thank you very much.

[nickhannon]

This FINALLY solved an issue I've been having all day. I'm very new to coding, starting my first real solo project using Flask and I could not for the life of me figure out how to set the virtual environment as the interpreter. My problem was essentially in folder placement. I had my project in my venv folder and had opened my project folder in VSCode. I'm such a visual learner trying to parse out documentation and understand whats happening can be really tricky without someone directly explaining it to me, so that one image in the beginning of both folders in the parent folder was a surprisingly big help. I keep forgetting that so much of this cryptic looking syntax that seems like magical runes are just basic text editing and accessing folders in specific places. Definitely starting to understand why people do so much of this stuff in the command line rather than with GUI

[Powerlevelspy]

Question: How do I bring the specific interpreter back on the taskbar? Mine doesn't have "python 3.8.2" for example. It just has python on the right. No specific version or anything. My code works fine and yes I did use a virtual environment, but I restarted the entire project from scratch so i'm certain it is gone.