Conda and Visual Studio Code debugging
Solution 1
I found a better solution, based on the previous ones:
Go to Workplace Settings.
Override the parameter python.venvPath
with the Path to folder with a list of Virtual Environments. For the case of anaconda:
This setting enables VS Code to recognize the available conda environments
. Thus, we can click on the current python interpreter and switch to others:
Solution 2
When starting Visual Studio Code from an activated Conda environment, I was able to use the environment variable to specify the path (MacOS):
{
"python.pythonPath": "~/anaconda/envs/${env.CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}/bin/python"
}
Go to Workplace Settings by pressing Cmd ,
or navigating from the top menu, then add this to settings.json
Solution 3
For anyone looking for recent info on this, I recently came across this error where I had a conda env selected as the interpreter but the debugger was being launched with the base environment. This caused issues as the two environments had different versions of pyspark and caused the following error:
Python in worker has different version 3.8 than that in driver 3.9
Then I came across this issue, and while it doesn't provide a fix, it gives a workaround as follows:
- Close VScode (if running)
- Open a terminal
- (optional) navigate to the folder you want e.g.
cd /projects/cool_name
- Activate conda environment
conda activate my_env
- Launch VScode from the current terminal
code .
This will launch new VScode window in your current directory and using the debugger should pick up my_env
.
Solution 4
On MacOS, follow these steps:
Install Python for VSCode (the most popular python extension)
Go to Workplace Settings by pressing
Cmd ,
or navigating from the top menu.
Add the path of your specific conda environment, like seen above, to your
settings.json
file. You can find the paths of your conda environments by typingconda env list
in terminal.Save and restart VS Code
Now the debugger will automatically use that environment! As far as I know, you must do this individually for each project.
For other ways of configuring your python path, here is a useful post by the extension author: https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode/wiki/Python-Path-and-Version
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Comments
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Andrew Schreiber over 2 years
The goal is to be able to use my environment setup from Conda/Anaconda within the visual studio code debugger. The default pythonpath configuration does not produce this effect - rather it goes to the system default python path (what you get when you type 'python' in a fresh shell).
How do I configure VS Code to use my Conda environment?
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pkowalczyk almost 7 yearsI also works for Windows! You have to just change the path to correct one.
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pkowalczyk almost 7 years
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hoechenberger about 6 yearsThis is an excellent solution! Could you maybe edit your response and upload / embed the screenshots?
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Charlie Parker about 4 yearsI am able to find the environments but then the names seem to be messed up (or not match the normal terminal vs vscode's terminal). Did you ever see that bug/behaviour? stackoverflow.com/questions/61466629/…