The PATH variable in the integrated Terminal in Visual Studio Code is different from the one in the Terminal app. How can I change it?
I'm using the Intel Distribution for Python from Intel oneAPI and I have both the setvars.sh script called and the conda initialize code in my .zshrc. In Mac Terminal I can properly activate conda environments. However, in the integrated Terminal in VSC, the /usr/bin folder is listed before the conda folders, so the system Python interpreted is called.
EDIT: I initially thought that the Intel Distribution for Python had something to do with it, but the same issue occurs with a regular Anaconda distribution.
It looks like that the problem is that Visual Studio Code inherits the PATH from Terminal but somehow it rearranges the order of the folder, and this confuses the Anaconda activation script. Since I couldn't find a solution, I implemented a workaround by adding the following lines to my .zshrc, right after the Anaconda initialization script:
# Workaround for Visual Studio Code integrated terminal
if [[ -v VSCODE_GIT_IPC_HANDLE ]]; then
conda deactivate
conda activate
fi
I am not 100% sure the right behaviour as I don't use a Mac but you might try launching VS Code from the terminal which has the right environment.
Make sure that code is in your PATH with https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac#_launching-from-the-command-line
Then ensure that all the VScode sessions are closed on your machine and launch it via code from the terminal.
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I am working on a linux machine my work can benefit from VSCODE.
When I install and try to run VSCODE on an Ubuntu machine, I get this error:
root#ca012294dcc1:/tmp# code --user-data-dir /tmp
To use Visual Studio Code with the Windows Subsystem for Linux, please install Visual Studio Code in Windows and uninstall the Linux version in WSL. You can then use the `code` command in a WSL terminal just as you would in a normal command prompt.
Do you want to continue anyway? [y/N] y
To no longer see this prompt, start Visual Studio Code with the environment variable DONT_PROMPT_WSL_INSTALL defined.
/usr/share/code/bin/../code: error while loading shared libraries: libxshmfence.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
WSL is out of scope. This is not a WSL senario
Remote SSH is out of scope. I know I can connect over SSH with Visual Studio Code. But I like to replace something like VIM with code
There is no Linux GUI available. Only text mode.
Is what I am trying to do possible?
I have Ubuntu LTS 20.04 running on wsl2 in Windows, this way I'm able to compile my JS/React code and run my php server in linux and use windows to code using Visual Studio Code.
This is running great, but a strange thing is happening, I installed nvm and gulp through the Visual Studio Code terminal and if I use them on the terminal it works fine but not if I do it outside the terminal (using Windows terminal), it says not found for both gulp and nvm.
I assume VSCode is adding a few things to the PATH but I don't know what to do for them to be found by the windows terminal (outisde VSCode terminal). Screen below. On the left is the result of running nvm list inside VS Code terminal and on the right on Ubuntu terminal, which can't find.
I'm a bit confused by your question. It sounds like you're installing programs on Windows through the VSCode terminal, and then trying to run them on Windows but it's not working. But then your screenshot shows the WSL Ubuntu prompt failing to find the command. Assuming you want to run these under WSL, log in to WSL Ubuntu and run this:
find / -name nvm
If you actually want to use the Windows terminal to run the program, you'll have to find where it is installed in Windows and make sure that's in your %PATH% but this doesn't seem like it's what you're trying to do.
The correct answer was provided by the comment from MindSwipe.
On VSCODE terminal if I "echo $PATH" it has the nvm directory in it while the $PATH on WSL doesn't, I assume VSCODE alters its own terminal PATH when the tools are installed using it instead of the global WSL path.
I've changed the WSL path and it's now working, how can I present the bounty to MindSwipe ?
I am on Ubuntu 20.04 and have both Python2 and Python3 installed natively. I have also installed Python through miniforge, a variant of miniconda. In VSCode I have both the MS Python extension and Pylance installed.
I use the miniforge python for my coding. This works perfectly fine in PyCharm.
However in VSCode, when I try to execute the same file I get errors. After investigating it seems that VSCode is picking native Python2 - even though I have the miniforge Python selected. In this picture it can be seen that the status bar at the bottom states Python interpreter selected is Python3. But the output window shows that the python interpreter is Python2.
A more confusing thing is when I use VSCode for Jupyter notebook files then it picks up the interpreter correctly and I have no issues.
I have checked both User and Workspace settings, and they all point to Python3. How can I fix this for standard .py files?
I prefer VSCode to PyCharm, but will need to use PyCharm till this is resolved.
It seems that your system console cannot see python3. You need to put the python3 in the PATH variable, before python2. Like:
PATH=path/to/python3:path/to/python2:$PATH
Also, make sure that the environment containing python3 is activated before command prompt appears. It can be done in bash_profile by adding a line like
conda activate my_env_with_python3
Try changing the settings "Python:Python path", "Python:default interpreter path" and "Python:conda path" also.
I have just bumped into something similar. The Run code option resulted in the file being run with the default interpreter instead of the venv-based one with necessary packages installed.
The fix was simply to use "Run python file" instead:
The run-code behavior must be customizable, something is mentioned e.g. here: Run Code vs Run Python File in Terminal for VSCODE but I didn't bother.
Is there a way to force VS Code to use only python3? It always defaults to python2.7 no matter what I try. I've tried selecting the correct interpreter as python3.7. When I open up terminal, it immediately uses python2.7, In the settings it is pointing at 3.7, but the built in terminal which is nice, always defaults to 2.7.
First, understand that the integrated terminal of VSCode, by default, uses the same environment as the Terminal app on Mac.
The shell used defaults to $SHELL on Linux and macOS, PowerShell on
Windows 10 and cmd.exe on earlier versions of Windows. These can be
overridden manually by setting terminal.integrated.shell.* in user
settings.
The default $SHELL on Mac is /bin/bash which uses python for Python2.7. So VS Code will just use the same python to mean Python2.7. When you open a bash shell, it will load your ~/.bash_profile to apply custom aliases and other configurations you added into it.
One solution to your problem is edit your ~/.bash_profile to alias python to python3. But I do not recommend this because this affects all your bash sessions, even those outside of VS Code. This can lead to nasty side effects when you run scripts that need python to be the system Python2.7.
You can instead configure VSCode to load its own aliases, for its own integrated terminal. First, create a file named vscode.bash_profile in your home directory:
$ cat ~/vscode.bash_profile
alias python=$(which python3)
On my env, python3 is Python3.7. You can set it to the what's applicable on your env (ex. maybe python3.7). Then, in VS Code, look for the Terminal shell args setting:
and then open your settings.json and add these lines:
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.osx": [
"--init-file",
"~/vscode.bash_profile",
]
Finally, restart VS Code. The next time you open the VS Code terminal, python should now be using your Python 3 installation. This should not affect your bash session outside of VS Code.
Note that, if you have some custom settings from the default ~/.bash_profile, you may want to copy it over to your ~/vscode.bash_profile, so that you can still use it on VS Code (ex. changes to PATH, git-completion scripts..).
I just started with VS Code today as I have to prepare to port some of my code to Linux and I noticed that in the Terminal section there is the option of having a WSL bash, so I thought I could use this to compile my projects with gcc right there. I already installed Ubuntu for Windows 10 from the MSFT Store some time ago an installed several packages there. The thing is that the Ubuntu bash doesn't seem to share to the Linux workspace with the bash I see in VS Code, since in the latter I am lacking all those packages I already installed; it seems to be a completely different installation. Also, I noticed that the bash in the VS Code terminal uses German language while the Ubuntu App's bash is in English. (I have no idea why this is since Windows as well as VS Code is English.)
I'm quite confused about these differences, how do ubuntu.exe and bash.exe relate to each other? Can anybody shed some light on this? Obviously, it would be preferrable to to have only ONE Linux workspace in WSL so I don't have to have duplicates (of my data and also the installed packages) at different places.
To use WSL bash in VS Code integrated terminal, you need to add/change setting:
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\bash.exe",
Restart VS Code or integrated terminal.
If two or more WSL distro are installed, then you need to specify the path to the desired distro.
For example you can find it by running: where ubuntu, where ubuntu1604 or where ubuntu1804. And change the settings to the desired ones. For example:
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\ubuntu1604.exe",