Use virtualenv with Python with Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu

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I have a Python project and navigation autocomplete work perfectly within files in the project  I want to specify a virtualenv so that navigation autocomplete work with packages inside that virtualenv  I tried this in settings py  but navigation autocomplete does not work  Also by setting  quot python pythonPath quot   quot   dev venvs proj bin python killed the original navigation autocomplete         quot editor rulers quot    80 100        quot python autoComplete extraPaths quot              quot   dev venvs proj quot            quot   dev venvs proj lib quot

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On Mac OS X using Visual Studio Code version 1.34.0 (1.34.0) I had to do the following to get Visual Studio Code to recognise the virtual environments:

Location of my virtual environment (named ml_venv):

/Users/auser/.pyvenv/ml_venv

auser@HOST:~/.pyvenv$ tree -d -L 2
.
+-- ml_venv
    +-- bin
    +-- include
    +-- lib

I added the following entry in Settings.json: "python.venvPath": "/Users/auser/.pyvenv"

I restarted the IDE, and now I could see the interpreter from my virtual environment:

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Another way is to open Visual Studio Code from a terminal with the virtualenv set and need to perform F1  Python  Select Interpreter and select the required virtualenv

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As of September 2016  according to the GitHub repository documentation of the extension  you can just execute a command from within Visual Studio Code that will let you select the interpreter from an automatically generated list of known interpreters  including the one in your project s virtual environment    How can I use this feature     Select the command Python  Select Workspace Interpreter    from the command palette  F1       Upon selecting the above command a list of discovered interpreters will be displayed in a quick pick list      Selecting an interpreter from this list will update the settings json file automatically        This command has been updated to Python  Select Interpreter in the latest release of Visual Studio Code  thanks  nngeek   Also  notice that your selected interpreter will be shown at the left side of the statusbar  e g   Python 3 6 64-bit  This is a button you can click to trigger the Select Interpreter feature

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Quite simple with the latest version of Visual Studio Code  if you have installed the official Python extension for Visual Studio Code  Shift   Command   P Type  Python  Select Interpreter Choose your virtual environment  Official site

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With the latest Python extension for Visual Studio Code  there is a venvPath Setting     Path to folder with a list of Virtual Environments  e g     pyenv    Envs     virtualenvs      quot python venvPath quot    quot  quot    On Mac OS X  go to Code   Preferences   Settings and scroll down to Python Configuration  Look for  quot python venvPath   quot  quot   and click the pencil on the left-hand side to open up your user settings  Finally  add the path to where you store your virtual environments  If you are using virtuanenvwrapper  or you have put all your virtual environment setting in one folder  this will be the one for you  After you have configured  quot python venvPath quot   restart Visual Studio Code  Then open the command palette and look for  quot Python  Select Interpreter quot   At this point  you should see the interpreter associated with the virtual environment you just added

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I was able to use the workspace setting that other people on this page have been asking for   In Preferences    P  search for python pythonPath in the search bar   You should see something like      Path to Python  you can use a custom version of Python by modifying this setting to include the full path   python pythonPath    python    Then click on the WORKSPACE SETTINGS tab on the right side of the window  This will make it so the setting is only applicable to the workspace you re in   Afterwards  click on the pencil icon next to  python pythonPath   This should copy the setting over the workspace settings   Change the value to something like    python pythonPath      workspaceFolder  venv

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It seems to be  as of 2018 03  in code-insider  A directive has been introduced called python venvFolders     quot python venvFolders quot          quot envs quot        quot  pyenv quot        quot  direnv quot        All you need is to add your virtualenv folder name

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I got this from YouTube Setting up Python Visual Studio Code    Venv OK  the video really didn t help me all that much  but    the first comment under  by the person who posted the video  makes a lot of sense and is pure gold  Basically  open up Visual Studio Code  built-in Terminal  Then source  lt your path gt  activate sh  the usual way you choose a venv from the command line  I have a predefined Bash function to find  amp  launch the right script file and that worked just fine  Quoting that YouTube comment directly  all credit to aneuris ap    you really only need steps 5-7  1  Open your command line terminal and type  pip virtualenv   2  Create a folder in which the virtualenv will be placed in  3   cd  to the script folder in the virtualenv and run activate bat  CMD   4  Deactivate to turn of the virtualenv  CMD   5  Open the project in Visual Studio Code and use its built-in terminal to  cd  to the script folder in you virtualenv  6  Type source activates  in Visual Studio Code I use the Git terminal   7  Deactivate to turn off the virtualenv   As you may notice  he s talking about activate bat   So  if it works for me on a Mac  and it works on Windows too  chances are it s pretty robust and portable

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I put the absolute path of the virtual environment Python executable as well has the packages  I then restarted Visual Studio Code  I am trying to get   workspaceRoot  to avoid hardcoding absolute paths         quot editor rulers quot    80 100        quot python pythonPath quot    quot  home jesvin dev ala venv bin python quot        quot python autoComplete extraPaths quot              quot  home jesvin dev ala venv lib python2 7 quot            quot  home jesvin dev ala venv lib python2 7 site-packages quot

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a  Modify Visual Studio Code default virtual env path setting  It s called  python venvPath   You do this by going into code- settings and scroll down for python settings    b  Restart VS Code  c  Now if you do Shift   Command   P and type Python  Select Interpreter you should see list of your virtual environments

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With the latest update to the extension all you need to do is just specify the  quot python pythonPath quot  as follows  The values for  quot python autoComplete extraPaths quot  will be determined during runtime  but you are still free to specify custom paths in there  Please  remember to restart Visual Studio Code once the necessary changes have been made         quot editor rulers quot    80 100        quot python pythonPath quot   quot   dev venvs proj bin python quot

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