Visual Studio Code terminal doesn’t activate…

I read this Stack Overflow post on a similar issue, but the suggestions there don’t seem to be working. I installed Visual Studio Code on my Windows machine and added the Python extension. Then I changed the Python path for my project to C:Usersusername.condaenvstompython.exe. The .vscode/settings.json has this in it:

{
    "python.pythonPath": "C:\Users\username\.conda\envs\tom\python.exe"
}

The status bar in Visual Studio Code also shows:

But when I do conda env list even after doing conda activate tom in the terminal I get the output:

# conda environments:
#
base                  *  C:ProgramDataAnaconda3
tom                      C:Usersusername.condaenvstom

Instead of:

# conda environments:
#
base                     C:ProgramDataAnaconda3
tom                   *  C:Usersusername.condaenvstom

Also the packages not installed in base don’t get imported when I try python app.py. What should I do?

where python runs, but it doesn’t give any output.

Also,

import os
import sys
os.path.dirname(sys.executable)

gives

'C:\Python38'

Answer

First, open the Anaconda prompt (How to access Anaconda command prompt in Windows 10 (64-bit)), and type:

conda activate tom

To activate your virtual environment.

Then to open Visual Studio Code in this active environment, type

code

And it should work.

Visual Studio Code terminal doesn’t activate Conda environment

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