I have django project folder with venv environment.
when opening vscode it has terminal opened in vscode.
Is there a way that I don't have to venv/bin/activate all the time when opening the project folder?
Edit (credit to #XJOJIX) from the comment in this answer. This will active the virtual environment without having to close or open terminals. A Python file still needs to be selected to load the Python extension.
Add this parameter in VS Code to "launch.json" or ".code-workspace"
"settings": {
"python.terminal.activateEnvInCurrentTerminal": true
}
Previous Answer:
To have a VS Code terminal automatically activate a virtual environment when first launching VS Code:
Close the terminal before exiting VS Code.
Open VS Code. Ensure a Python file is selected to direct VS Code to load the Python extension.
Wait for the Python extension to finishing loading (very bottom
left of VS Code terminal).
Open a new terminal after Python extension has loaded. The venv will automatically activate.
The trick is to open the terminal only after the Python extension has loaded.
If the directory of the terminal contains a virtual environment, VS Code will also automatically activate a virtual environment if a new terminal is opened. As before, a Python file must be selected and the Python extension must be fully loaded.
If you are on a mac OS, the simplest thing is to make ENV for your python projects.
Follow these simple Command in your Vs Code Terminal and you get your ENV activated :
Python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
(The env in the first line is your env name so you can type any name)
Use the command palette to trigger the "Python: select interpreter" command. It should allow you to pick your virtual environment.
The article Using Python environments in VS Code migth be of interest to you.
If you use window machine, it might locate at
env/Scripts/activate
You can run above in your vscode terminal to activate your venv
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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'm using python on vs code.
I created a virtual environment. Activated it. Installed packages with pip but still in code it says no module name found error.
I assume by "activated it" you mean you have called its activate script within the shell? Then only the shell knows about your environment, you still need to tell VS Code where it is.
Press Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the command palette, run command Preferences: Open Workspace Settings (JSON) and add the following line to set the Python interpreter of the workspace to the one in your virtual environment:
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": "path/to/your/venv/bin/python"
I want to open an existing virtual environment in Visual Studio Code. When I try to change the interpreter address inside of the settings.json (as instructed by https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments#_global-virtual-and-conda-environments) it doesn't work. With the virtual environment that I have, there is no python.exe file, I believe that is the issue as to why the following settings.json file doesn't work.
{
"python.pythonPath": "D:\\GitProjects\\OrganizationApp\\venv1\\bin\\python"
}
First of all Try open the root folder which venv folder resides in with Visual Studio Code.
(If you are on Linux you can just got the directory and open terminal and type code).
You should get a pop up to change the interpreter.
If not then Open your command palette Ctrl + Shift + P
Search for Python interpreter and select the Venv one.
According to your description, you could refer to the following steps to check the creation and use of the virtual environment in VSCode:
Prerequisites.
Check if python is available.
Enter cmd from the computer, enter the cmd window, enter python, and output the python version number to represent python is available.
If it is not available, please check the python installation package and check the python environment variables.
The python extension was successfully installed in VSCode.
Create and use a virtual environment:
Create a virtual environment in the vscode terminal. python3 -m venv ./venv1 or python -m venv ./venv1 Reference: virtual environments.
Select Yes when the prompt box pops up.
Then the interpreter will automatically be replaced with the created virtual environment.
After restarting VSCode, there is no python interpreter displayed in the lower left corner. We can create or open a python file and it will automatically display the interpreter.
Click on the interpreter to choose other available interpreters.
Use the shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+` to open a new terminal and enter the virtual environment.
Update:
When I open other projects or don’t open any project in VSCode , the virtual environment created before is not displayed in the python interpreter options. The reason is that the virtual environment we created is based on the current project and it exists in this project. like this:
Although this virtual environment is not displayed in other projects, I can use this virtual environment by selecting the python.exe of the virtual environment ( 'enter interpreter path' '.venv' 'Scripts'). Therefore, if there is no python.exe, it is recommended to create a new virtual environment.
I want VS Code to turn venv on run, but I can't find how to do that.
I already tried to add to settings.json this line:
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["source${workspaceFolder}\env\Scripts\activate"]
But, it throws me an 127 error code. I found what 127 code means. It means, Not found. But how it can be not found, if I see my venv folder in my eyes right now?
I think it's terminal fault. I'm using Win 10 with Git Bash terminal, that comes when you install Git to your machine.
This is how I did it in 2021:
Enter Ctrl+Shift+P in your vs code.
Locate your Virtual Environment:
Python: select interpreter > Enter interpreter path > Find
Once you locate your virtual env select your python version:
your-virtual-env > bin > python3.
Now in your project you will see .vscode directory created open settings.json inside of it and add:
"python.terminal.activateEnvironment": true
don't forget to add comma before to separate it with already present key value pair.
Now restart the terminal.
You should see your virtual environment activated automatically.
Actually the earlier suggested solutions didn't work for me, instead I added the following in my settings:
"settings": {
"python.terminal.activateEnvInCurrentTerminal": true,
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": "~/venv/bin/python"
}
Of course replace the defaultInterpreterPath (used to be pythonPath) setting with your own path (so don't copy/paste the second line).
You don't need this line at all. Just remove it and switch your Python interpreter to point to the one within your venv. Here's a relevant documentation (italicized emphasis mine):
To select a specific environment, use the Python: Select Interpreter
command from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).
... and
opening a terminal with the Terminal: Create New Integrated Terminal
command. In the latter case, VS Code automatically activated the
selected environment.
Once you switch the interpreter VS code should create a .vscode folder within your workspace with a settings.json indicating the python interpreter. This will give VS code the direction of where to locate the venv.
There is a new flag that one can use: "python.terminal.activateEnvironment": true
my scenario was pretty much the same. I am running VSCode on Windows, wanting to used git bash as my default Terminal but after the venv got created, it was doing some weird stuff when a Terminal would open where it couldn't find the correct python interpeter in the venv/Scripts folder even though I did ctrl-shift-p a bunch of times to reset it to the python.exe there. I also wanted to make sure the activate script was run on Terminal open. I just couldn't get the debugger to work right and it kept complaining that it could not find the python interpreter, so I basically couldn't debug at all.
So for anyone who is having weird stuff happen trying to use a Git Bash Terminal in VSCode in Windows related to a python project using a virtual env, here is what I found out;
I noticed that when I opened a new Git Bash Terminal, and looked at the $PATH variable to make sure it could find the interpreter in the venv, the path to the venv/Scripts folder would be prepended to the $PATH, but not with linux path separators like everything else in $PATH but with a Windows style path;
echo $PATH
C:\Users\blah\Documents\blah\Stock-down\Dev\this_api\venv/Scripts:/c/Users/blah/bin:/mingw64/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/mingw64/bin:/usr/bin:/c/Users/blah/bin:/c/Program Files/Go/bin:/c/Python39/Scripts:
So whenever I would try to debug, or just even run which python, It would get confused and thought the interpreter was in here;
which python
C:\Users\blah\Documents\blah\Stock-down\Dev\this_api\venv/Scripts/C/Users/blah/Documents/blah/Stock-down/Dev/this_api/venv/Scripts/python.exe
I ran the "printenv" command in the Terminal to see what env vars were getting set and why the venv interpreter path was getting messed up. And I found a env var I didn't know existed - VIRTUAL_ENV. But I didn't know how it was getting set or where it came from. After some pain, and hunting around I found it - when you run "python -m venv venvname" to create the virtual env in the project folder, as you know, it creates the activate (and activate.bat for windows) scripts in the ./venv/Scripts folder. Inside these files this VIRTUAL_ENV variable is not only exported, but but prepended to the $PATH variable on Terminal open with the "/Scripts" folder name added in linux path style. The problem with is that it sets the VIRTUAL_ENV value with windows type path - I know its painful and wrong to do this, but I just changed it to what Git Bash is expecting, see below;
#unset irrelevant variables
deactivate nondestructive
#VIRTUAL_ENV="C:\Users\blah\Documents\blah\Stock-down\Dev\this_api\venv"
VIRTUAL_ENV="/c/Users/blah/Documents/blah/Stock-down/Dev/st_api/venv"
export VIRTUAL_ENV
_OLD_VIRTUAL_PATH="$PATH"
PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/Scripts:$PATH"
export PATH
Now when a new Git Bash Terminal is opened it prepends the venv/Scripts path correctly to $PATH;
echo $PATH
/c/Users/blah/Documents/blah/Stock-down/Dev/st_api/venv/Scripts:/c/Users/blah/bin:/mingw64/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/mingw64/bin:/usr/bin:/c/Users/blah/bin:/c/Program Files/Go/bin:/c/Python39/Scripts:
I also made a copy of the executable python.exe in the ./venv/Scripts dir and just called it "python" and now the command "which python" works and I can debug fine. I still set ctrl-shift-P when I choose the interpreter in VSCODE to "python.exe" when I just use "find" during the selection.
For more information on VIRTUAL_ENV var, see this doc -- python venv docs
It feels like jumping through a bunch of hoops I know, but this way I can open a new Git Bash Terminal, have the activate script run correctly on Terminal Open, debug, and operate normally without having to float between Git Bash AND WSL Ubuntu AND Powershell, etc.
My environment started to activate automatically after the advice from this article
When you create a new virtual environment, a prompt will be displayed
to allow you to select it for the workspace. This will add the path to
the Python interpreter from the new virtual environment to your
workspace settings. That environment will then be used when installing
packages and running code through the Python extension. For examples
of using virtual environment in projects, see the Python, Django, and
Flash tutorials.
My solution was to create /.vscode/settings.json manually
Here is the tree;
├───django
│ ├───.vscode
│ │ ├───settings.json
I created /.vscode/settings.json then added this code in settings.json (I am using windows so I used double backslash for path location otherwise it gives unicode error, and don't copy paste this, find your own .virtualenvs)
{
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": "C:\\Users\\Talha\\.virtualenvs\\django-okd21pq9\\Scripts\\python.exe"
}
Platform and software versions:
Mac OS Mojave, VS Code 1.38.0, Python extension installed. Created
virtual environment in project directory using command
python3 -m env.
Modified setting in Python extension,
"python.venvPath": "bin", to handle the bin directory where the python for the virtual
environment is stored.
Situation:
When I launch VS Code using code ., and then open a python file in the folder, the interpreter selected is ./bin/python, however the integrated terminal is not set to the right python executable. If I launch a new terminal it sources the virtual environment (which may be due to the Python extension setting "python.terminal.activateEnvironment": true)
Question:
Is there a way to have the integrated terminal also have the virtual environment sourced?
Or is there a better way to have VS Code activate virtual environment created by python3 -m env .?
Thank you.
Edit:
Just reread the VS Code documentation here - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments and this time noticed this below. Wondering if there is a way to kill the existing terminal and then launch one upon VS Code launch...
However, launching VS Code from a shell in which a certain Python environment is activated does not automatically activate that environment in the default integrated terminal. Use the Terminal: Create New Integrated Terminal command after VS Code is running.
Two things. One, "python.venvPath" is meant to point at a directory that contains other virtual environments, not the bin/ directory that has a Python interpreter from a virtual environment. (I also don't know what python3 -m env is supposed to do; did you mean python3 -m venv?)
Two, there isn't a way to make VS Code automatically launch and complete the loading of the Python extension before VS Code creates a terminal if you have the terminal frame open at start-up.
At the time of this writting vscode now has
"python.terminal.activateEnvInCurrentTerminal": true,
so I my global settings.json, F1 > preference: Open Settings (JSON)
"python.venvPath": "D:/miniconda3/envs",
"python.terminal.activateEnvInCurrentTerminal": true,
and in my workspace's settings.json, F1 > preference: Open Workspace Settings (JSON)
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": "D:/miniconda3/envs/my-workspace-venv/python.exe"
And it works for me.