As far as I know, for activating the virtual environment it's enought to just run pipenv shell
But in my case after running this command the parentheses at the beginning of the command prompt doesn't show up. Even after selecting the proper interpreter (the one inside venv folder)
To show the parentheses I should run activate command afterward.
So my question is: Is it important to show the project name in parentheses at the terminal prompt? Should I run the activate command after pipenv shell command every time?
I will appreciate if you describe the meaning of those parentheses. Tnx.
PS: I am using vscode in windows 10.
You do not need to activate the environment manually. When you select the python interpreter and open the terminal, vscode will activate it automatically for you.
The Python extension uses the selected environment for running Python code (using the Python: Run Python File in Terminal command), providing language services (auto-complete, syntax checking, linting, formatting, etc.) when you have a .py file open in the editor, and opening a terminal with the Terminal: Create New Terminal command. In the latter case, VS Code automatically activated the selected environment.
You can read document for more details.
I created a virtual environment in vscode in a folder called server by typing:
python -m venv env
And I opened the server folder, select interpreter Python 3.8.1 64-bit('env':venv)
then I got following error:
I can't find any solution to this and I am stuck for hours.
It seems that it is going to activate the environment through a powershell script. And running such scripts is turned off by default. Also, usually a virtual environment is activated through cmd and .bat script. You could either turn on running powershell script or make VS Code activate an environment through cmd and .bat file.
The first way - using cmd instead of Powershell
I just checked it in my PC and VS Code doesn't use Powershell at all. It activate an environment with cmd instead of Powershell. Probably it is worth to check VS Code settings, set cmd as a default terminal. It is probably such an option in the main settings.json (you can open it through ctrl+shift+p and type 'open settings (JSON)'): "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe",.
The second way - changing Powershell execution policy
In order to change Powershell execution policy you can add "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["-ExecutionPolicy", "Bypass"] to your main VS Code settings.
Also you can open a Powershell window as administrator and type the following:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
Then respond y to any questions.
An update with regards to using the Command Prompt instead of Powershell in VS Code:
When implementing "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe" in settings.json it gives the notice:
This is deprecated, the new recommended way to configure your default shell is by creating a terminal profile in #terminal.integrated.profiles.windows# and setting its profile name as the default in #terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows#. This will currently take priority over the new profiles settings but that will change in the future
After taking a look at the documentation I've found that the correct alternative would be to include a line as shown below.
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Command Prompt"
Alternatively, you can also use the GUI as shown in the documentation. More advanced settings are also shown there.
Try Using Cmd in vscode and Run this command env(your Virtual Env name)\Scripts\activate
I have Anaconda and Visual Studio Code installed on my computer. My default terminal for VS Code is Git Bash. When I open a new terminal in VSCode, it immediately runs the following commands:
C:/Users/ethan/AppData/Local/Continuum/anaconda3/Scripts/activate
conda activate base
The second of these commands gives the following error:
CommandNotFoundError: Your shell has not been properly configured to use 'conda activate'.
If using 'conda activate' from a batch script, change your
invocation to 'CALL conda.bat activate'.
I have tried running conda init bash and conda init --all both inside the VSCode terminal, and inside Git Bash. It handles that command fine, but it doesn't solve my problem. I don't know if the second line of the error applies to me, but even if it did, I don't know how to change the command being called because it is done automatically by VSCode. This error occurs every time I launch a terminal in VSCode (even if I don't have any python files present in my workspace), and it happens both when I launch VSCode from the launch button in Anaconda Navigator and when I launch VSCode by itself.
I had the same issue. For me, easily resolved by launching VSC from the conda window.
Specifically, open your cmd prompt (for me, Anaconda Prompt), activate the environment using 'conda activate [envname]'. Then just run the command 'code'. This will launch VS Code with the activated environment and associated variables. From there, the debug works as expected.
I had the same issue, I've fixed it by adding the Python.CondaPath in settings.
Press Ctrl + Shift + P and select Terminal Configuration. Search for python.conda, and paste your conda path for example. C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\conda.exe
This will fix your issue.
In VS code settings, search for "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows", then click "Edit in settings.json". For me, this opened "%APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json".
I set "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": "-i -l" and this fixed it for me. My file:
{
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": "-i -l"
}
Since conda activate command would cause CommandNotFoundError, use source activate command instead. It works the same.
I had the same issue. I got the following error:
CommandNotFoundError: Your shell has not been properly configured to use 'conda activate'.
If using 'conda activate' from a batch script, change your invocation to 'CALL conda.bat activate'.
To initialize your shell, run
$ conda init <SHELL_NAME>
Currently supported shells are:
- bash
- cmd.exe
- fish
- tcsh
- xonsh
- zsh
- powershell
See 'conda init --help' for more information and options.
IMPORTANT: You may need to close and restart your shell after running 'conda init'.
I solved it by manully run
source activate base
and Ta-da~ DONE!
This trick is simple, while needed every time you open a new git-bash terminal in VSCode.
This worked for me go to setting and search for
terminal.integrated.shellargs.windows
then choose Command Prompt like this
I had exactly the same error as you. I solved it with a tip from a Python course in Udacity
Open Git Bash command line (NOT within VSC terminal) and go to your home folder, e.g., /c/Users/arman. Then run the following two commands but replace [YOUR_PATH] with your Anaconda installation folder
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:[YOUR_PATH]:[YOUR_PATH]/Scripts"' >> .bashrc
echo 'alias python="winpty python.exe"' >> .bashrc
For example in my case, as I have miniconda, I executed:
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/c/Users/arman/Miniconda3:/c/Users/arman/Miniconda3/Scripts"' >> .bashrc
echo 'alias python="winpty python.exe"' >> .bashrc
After this executing those lines, i.e., creating the .bashrc file, then run:
source .bashrc
Afterwards, open VSC and try running or debugging a python program. It worked for me!
I solved this issue by using Powershell. Start the Powershell as Administrator and then type
set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Say yes if it asks a confirmation. Now, VSCode debugger option can be used with Python.
When I changed my default terminal in VS Code to cmd.exe I got conda to work properly for me.
None of these worked for me. In the end I changed my default VScode terminal to cmd instead of Powershell in the terminal default settings which was None for Windows. I had already added conda.exe to my path and changed the permissions as described above.
For some reason the activate.bat file was now found in the path which activated my virtual env.
This answer is dedicated to Windows 10/11 users, based on PowerShell VS Code integrated terminal, and assumes using miniconda but the same holds for conda under the previous environment.
From the start menu type or search for Anaconda Powershell Prompt then right-click to open its file location. You should see the PowerShell shortcut. Right-click and open properties. In the target bar try to find C:\Users\username\miniconda3\shell\condabin\conda-hook.ps1' ; PowerShell script (.ps1). Using file explorer locate C:\Users\username\miniconda3\shell\condabin. Copy the content of that script.
In the default Documents folder create a folder named WindowsPowerShell if not exists and edit or create a new Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1 script in it. Lastly, paste by appending the content of the former script.
You could do the same for the external PowerShell but the script under the path C:\Users\username\Documents\WindowsPowerShell should be named Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1.
In other words, the PowerShell profile script enables the creation of aliases and defining functions that load every time you launch the shell. However, the changes take effect after restarting VS Code and/or PowerShell.
I've installed python 2.7 on my machine. Although path variables are set properly, whenever I fire python command, it opens up python prompt in new window. If I try to run it as an administrator, it works fine. But gives an issue for normal user.
It is resolved, python.exe was by default running as an administrator when python command was fired. Resetting it helped in resolving the issue.
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I have both anaconda and VS Code installed in my system. When I start writing a script, VS Code gives me an option to chose the interpreter. I choose my particular conda environment. This works fine. However when I try to run the script using Ctrl+Alt+N or using the play button on the top right (using the extension Code Runner), the terminal that opens in the VS Code doesn't recognize that I am now working in a conda environment.
As a result, it gives an error that the module is not installed (because the module is available only in the conda environment).
When I try to manually activate the conda environment from the VS Code terminal, it doesn't work.
What is the workaround? I am using Windows.
Update: If I use cmd as the default integrated terminal in VS Code in place of PowerShell, then the command activate NAME_OF_ANACONDA_ENV works. And then, I can manually run the script. However, running the script using Ctrl+Alt+N still doesn't work; it doesn't recognize that I am in a conda env.
After a few tries i figured out how to do it. So, this works for me.
vs code settings search: code-runner.executorMap
Choose User and
Edit in settings.json
find: "python": "python -u"
change: "python": "$pythonPath -u $fullFileName"
if you encounter tempCodeRunnerFile or selection problem:
vs code settings search: code-runner.ignoreSelection
tick the box
On windows 10: Ctrl+Shift+P and selecting the environment gets the job done.
After setting the environment, I execute by pressing Crtl+F5 to execute without debugging and F5 to debug.