microsoft / microsoft/vscode-python-debugger

Debugging leaves terminal in conda's Base environment instead of selected (interpreter's) conda environment

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Since Apr 30, 2025.

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Description

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. I am debugging my (pytest) test using Testing > select test > Debug Test GUI.
  2. Test is executing
  3. After test finishes it leaves terminal in Base conda environment instead of selected (interpreter's) environment.

As I end up in base environment, sometimes I execute poetry install which installs current project's dependencies in base environment. Sometimes I run pytest in base environment but it is not installed there and so on.

After interpreter is selected, whatever we do, we should do it inside that selected environment.
Any terminal windows that are opening during any process should use selected environment.
We should never end up in terminal in Base conda's environment.

VS Code Version:
Version: 1.99.3 (user setup)
Commit: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/17baf841131aa23349f217ca7c570c76ee87b957
Date: 2025-04-15T23:18:46.076Z
Electron: 34.3.2
ElectronBuildId: 11161073
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045, connected to remote Ubuntu

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