microsoft / microsoft/vscode-python-environments
Visual Studio Code failed to recognize default python interpreter path
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Description
I have set the default python interpreter path in the User Settings JSON file but VS Code reported Could not resolved interpreter path
I have verified the python interpreter path is correct:
I suspected that was because VS Code detected that I did not setup pyenv init in my .zshrc file.
I did NOT execute pyenv init - zsh in the .zshrc file because it slows down the initialization of zsh. Instead I initialized the pyenv environment in .zshrc as follows:
export PYENV_ROOT=~/.pyenv
export PATH=$PYENV_ROOT/shims:$PATH
export PATH=$PYENV_ROOT/plugins/pyenv-virtualenv/shims:$PATH
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