Activating Anaconda Environment in VsCode

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I have Anaconda working on my system and VsCode working  but how do I get VsCode to activate a specific environment when running my python script

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The best option I found is to set the python venvPath parameter in vscode settings to your anaconda envs folder    python venvPath     Users       Anaconda3 envs    Then if you bring up the command palette  ctl   shift   P on windows linux  cmd   shift   P on mac  and type Python  Select Workspace Interpreter all your envs will show up and you can select which env to use    The python extension will also need to be installed for the Select Workspace Interpreter option   Note  The Select Workspace Interpreter takes around 10 seconds to come up on my computer using the current version of VSCode

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As I was not able to solve my problem by suggested ways  I will share how I fixed it  First of all  even if I was able to activate an environment  the corresponding environment folder was not present in C  ProgramData Anaconda3 envs directory  So I created a new anaconda environment using Anaconda prompt  a new folder named same as your given environment name will be created in the envs folder  Next  I activated that environment in Anaconda prompt  Installed python with conda install python command  Then on anaconda navigator  selected the newly created environment in the  Applications on  menu  Launched vscode through Anaconda navigator  Now as suggested by other answers  in vscode  opened command palette with Ctrl   Shift   P keyboard shortcut  Searched and selected Python  Select Interpreter If the interpreter with newly created environment isn t listed out there  select Enter Interpreter Path and choose the newly created python exe which is located similar to C  ProgramData Anaconda3 envs  lt your-new-env gt     So the total path will look like C  ProgramData Anaconda3 envs  lt your-nev-env gt  python exe Next time onwards the interpreter will be automatically listed among other interpreters  Now you might see your selected conda environment at bottom left side in vscode

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If you need an independent environment for your project  Install your environment to your project folder using the --prefix option   conda create --prefix C  your workspace root awesomeEnv  python 3   In VSCode launch json configuration set your  pythonPath  to    pythonPath     workspaceRoot  awesomeEnv python exe

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Setting python pythonPath in VSCode s settings json file doesn t work for me  but another method does  According to the Anaconda documentation at Microsoft Visual Studio Code  VS Code       When you launch VS Code from Navigator  VS Code is configured to use the Python interpreter in the currently selected environment

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Find a note here  https   code visualstudio com docs python environments  conda-environments     As noted earlier  the Python extension automatically detects existing   conda environments provided that the environment contains a Python   interpreter  For example  the following command creates a conda   environment with the Python 3 4 interpreter and several libraries    which VS Code then shows in the list of available interpreters     conda create -n env-01 python 3 4 scipy 0 15 0 astroid babel       In contrast  if you fail to specify an interpreter  as with conda create   --name env-00  the environment won t appear in the list

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I found a hacky solution replace your environment variable for the original python file so instead it can just call from the python exe from your anaconda folder  so when you reference python it will reference anaconda s python   So your only python path in env var should be like    C  Anaconda3 envs py34    or wherever the python executable lives   If you need more details I don t mind explaining

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I found out that if we do not specify which python version we want the environment which is created is completely empty  Thus  to resolve this issue what I did is that I gave the python version as well  i e conda create --name env name python 3 6  so what it does now is that it installs python 3 6 and now we can select the interpreter  For that follow the below-mentioned steps   Firstly  open the command palette using Ctrl   Shift   P  Secondly  Select Python  select Interpreter  Now  Select Enter interpreter path  We have to add the path where the env is  the default location will be C  Users YourUserName Anaconda3 envs env name   Finally  you have successfully activated your environment  It might now be the best way but it worked for me  Let me know if there is any issue

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Although approved answer is correct  I want to show a bit different approach  based on this answer    Vscode can automatically choose correct anaconda environment if you start vscode from it  Just add to user workspace settings          python pythonPath    C   lt proper anaconda path gt  Anaconda3 envs   env CONDA DEFAULT ENV  python      It works on Windows  macOS and probably Unix  Further read on variable substitution in vscode  here

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If Anaconda is your default Python install then it just works if you install the Microsoft Python extension   The following should work regardless of Python editor or if you need to point to a specific install   In settings json edit python path with something like   python pythonPath    C   Anaconda3  envs  py34  python exe    Instructions to edit settings json

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Simply use    shift   cmd   P   Search Select Interpreter       Select it and it will show you the list of your virtual environment created via conda and other python versions      select the environment and you are ready to go    Quoting the  Select and activate an environment  docs     Selecting an interpreter from the list adds an entry for python pythonPath with   the path to the interpreter inside your Workspace Settings

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Unfortunately  this does not work on macOS  Despite the fact that I have export CONDA DEFAULT ENV   HOME anaconda3 envs dev  in my  zshrc and  python pythonPath      env CONDA DEFAULT ENV  bin python    in my VSCode prefs  the built-in terminal does not use that environment s Python  even if I have started VSCode from the command line where that variable is set

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Just launch the VS Code from the Anaconda Navigator  It works for me

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