microsoft / microsoft/vscode-python-environments

Python ENV switching (bottom right corner) not working

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Description

Type: Bug

Python ENV switching (bottom right corner) not working. In previous versions of VS Code I could easily switch between python environments by clicking on the bottom right corner of VS code and select the env. This would happen right away and worked great. Now I need to click on the bottomr right corner, select the env I want and then restart VS code for it to start in that env.

Be great if this could be fixed as its a very useful feature

VS Code version: Code 1.114.0 (e7fb5e96c0730b9deb70b33781f98e2f35975036, 2026-04-01T09:27:11Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

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