VSCode: There is no Pip installer available in the selected environment

Question

I'm trying to run the autopep8 linter on a Python file in VSCode.

I've followed the instructions here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments and selected my interpreter (⇧⌘P): /usr/local/bin/python

I then try to format my code, and VSCode says autopep8 isn't installed, and can be installed via Pip. However, when I try to install via Pip, it says There is no Pip installer available in the selected environment.

I then tried launching a terminal in the current environment by selecting Python: Create Terminal from the Command Palette.

The terminal opens fine, pip is present, and I'm even able to pip install autopep8 in the terminal that opened in VSCode, but when I try running the Format Document command I get the same errors that autopep8 and pip aren't available in the environment.

Solution 1

On Ubuntu16.04, I worked with Python3 in vscode and

apt-get install python3-pip

solves my problem.

That's because I discover that: Under my terminal, I type the pip -V. It displays it's for Python2, not for Python3.

Solution 2

Man you can only change the interpreter.

Go in (ctrl + shift + p), then type Python: Select Interpreter, this way you choose the version that your extension needs.

This worked for me.

Solution 3

I have multiple python versions:

2.7
3.6
3.7

1. Tell the vscode/ visual studio code, which version to use:

press the following (Show All Commands): Ctrl + Shift + P
paste the following: Python: Select Interpreter
Select one of the version that it shows, I have selected python 3.7.3 64-bit

2. Update python path in settings:

press Ctrl + , to open Settings
search for python.pythonPath
change python to /usr/bin/python3.7

Note: this may not be needed, however, make sure /usr/bin/python3.7 really exists for you, you may have at a different path like /usr/local/bin/python3.7, etc.

3. I had pip but it was 2.7, but since I am choosing python 3, it's pip needs to be installed

Run the following command in Terminal: apt-get install python3-pip

4. Restart vscode

With the above steps, all issues got resolved. Hope that helps.

Solution 4

try Ctrl+Shift+P then type

Python: Select Interpreter

and select the python version.

Solution 5

Installing python3-pip fixed the issue for me.

apt-get install python3-pip

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Comments

[abarnert]

What platform are you on, what Python are you using, and how did you install it? If you're on Linux, you may have installed a distro Python package that splits pip out into a separate package, like python-pip, in which case you need to install that. If you're on macOS, you may be using Apple's pre-installed Python, which doesn't come with pip (in which case you really should install a separate Python instead, but if you really want to, you can install pip for that one). And so on.

[abarnert]

Or, if you're just using a really old version of Python (before 2.7.9, or 3.0-3.3), it just didn't come with pip back then. In that case, if you can't upgrade to a newer Python (and you're not using a linux distro-installed Python), you need to use get-pip.py.

[ashgromnies]

I'm on Mac OS X, latest version, and I'm using a Python 3.6 installed via Homebrew that definitely has pip. I can even access pip from inside the terminal I can spin up inside VSCode. I was able to update my User Settings to get it to work: ``` "python.formatting.autopep8Path": "/usr/local/bin/autopep8", "python.linting.pylintPath": "/usr/local/bin/pylint" } ``` but I'm not a huge fan of that...

[abarnert]

Does installing Python 3.6 with Homebrew really create a /usr/local/bin/python rather than just /usr/local/bin/python3? (It didn't used to back when they had separate python2 and python3 packages, but I haven't used it recently.)

[abarnert]

More importantly (because that last question probably won't turn out to help…), please edit the information about platform, etc., into your question, rather than just putting it in a comment. And also, just to make sure: when you do the "select environment" thing, I assume VSCode properly labels it as something like "Python 3.6 (64-bit) Python Software Foundation", not just the label it uses when it's confused about the interpreter version, right?

[abarnert]

Also, make sure the same label appears in the status bar, and maybe double-check the workspace settings.json to make sure they got set correctly. And is there a python.envFile with anything weird in it? Finally, Could you switch to using virtual environments, or even pipenv, or would any suggestions in that direction be inappropriate?

[Natsfan]

it may be best to use virtual environment. Then activate the environment and run pip and other commands while the virtual environment is activated.

[rsmets]

Bingo! Thank you.

[Manohar Reddy Poreddy]

Happy to know it helped.

[Rey]

This works for windows too. Used the following path C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/Shared/Python37_64

[Manohar Reddy Poreddy]

@Rey Happy to it worked almost as-is. You comment is great help for Windows users.👍

[Pablo Adames]

As of VSCode Version: 1.49.1, the official terminal is zsh

[Erwol]

I'm on Ubuntu 20 running under WSL 2, and installing python 3 inside Ubuntu fixes this issue.

[Georgi Marinov]

Thank you!! This one worked for me, too.

[EMT]

Worked. So the issue is, after creating an env for a project, it is must to select the interpreter for that env. Otherwise, installler does not start automatically.

[Toan Nguyen Phuoc]

It's worked for me, but can you explain why window use py? Another my Window PC use python

[Daryll Castelino]

@ToanNguyenPhuoc<br/>py is itself located in C:\Windows (which is always part of the PATH), which is why you find it. When you installed Python, you didn't check the box to add it to your PATH, which is why it isn't there. In general, it's best to use the Windows Python Launcher, py.exe anyway, so this is no big deal. Just use py for launching consistently, and stuff will just work.

[muammar]

That's the right solution to the problem. Thanks for sharing it.