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ashgromnies
ashgromnies

Reputation: 3335

VSCode: There is no Pip installer available in the selected environment

I'm trying to run the autopep8 linter on a Python file in VSCode.

I've followed the instructions here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments and selected my interpreter (⇧⌘P): /usr/local/bin/python

I then try to format my code, and VSCode says autopep8 isn't installed, and can be installed via Pip. However, when I try to install via Pip, it says There is no Pip installer available in the selected environment.

I then tried launching a terminal in the current environment by selecting Python: Create Terminal from the Command Palette.

The terminal opens fine, pip is present, and I'm even able to pip install autopep8 in the terminal that opened in VSCode, but when I try running the Format Document command I get the same errors that autopep8 and pip aren't available in the environment.

Upvotes: 148

Views: 275119

Answers (18)

Patrick Collins
Patrick Collins

Reputation: 6131

For uv users, you'll just need to install pip into your working virtual environment.

uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv add pip
uv sync

This way, you'll have pip in your current working environment. Then, when you select your python interpreter, you'll want to make sure you're using the one from the virtual environment uv created.

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Windows Users

As many others in this thread have pointed out, Windows users should use WSL. You can get started learning to install WSL by watching this video.

Upvotes: 1

Boris Podolsky
Boris Podolsky

Reputation: 11

I faced the same error with poetry environment. poetry self update did the work

Upvotes: 1

Roarke
Roarke

Reputation: 119

I had the same problem today, none of the solutions helped me. Eventually, I figured it out myself.

I'm posting this answer for people who are having this problem. Just go to your ./venv folder and you will find a .cfg file.

Just make sure include-system-site-packages is set to true

home = /usr/bin
include-system-site-packages = true
version = 3.8.5

If it still doesn't work, just run sudo install python3-pip once in the terminal. Of course you could always change the version here as well.

Upvotes: 7

Daryll Castelino
Daryll Castelino

Reputation: 66

Note: This is a solution for Windows.

  1. First make Sure your Python is installed properly. Run the following command:
py --version
  1. If the Previous command is running fine it will give you your python version. In that case go ahead and check if pip is present or not. Run the below command to check:
py -m pip
  1. If pip is present in your system it show give you a list of option and info. If that's the case then go Ahead and run pip. All you need to do is precede the command you would normally write with py -m. For example:
pip install flask 

py -m pip install flask
  1. This should solve your problem.

Upvotes: 3

Parikshit Raj
Parikshit Raj

Reputation: 1

Go in (ctrl + shift + p), then type Python: Select Interpreter, then type Python: Select Interpreter and then click on "Enter interpreter path" Then click on "Find.. Browse your file. " Then type Python in c drive search bar and click on latest version of python in case if you have multiple version of python. Enter and modify wait for sometimes to complete then close. After that restart your vs code. It worked for me it will work for you also.

Upvotes: 0

MJC
MJC

Reputation: 39

Had this issue when trying use autopep8. For me - it had nothing to do with pip (I know it is installed) but the path the VScode python extension was using.

If you open up the extension and go to it's setting and scroll down, there is a path you can designate for autopep8: Python › Formatting: Autopep8 Path

I used the path recommended by these docs:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/editing#_formatting

Which was: python.formatting.autopep8Args

I stopped getting the error.

Upvotes: 1

xdhmoore
xdhmoore

Reputation: 9876

I was having a similar problem with pylint in a docker container. I realized that the reason the VS-Code-prompted pylint install didn't work for me was because I was using the global python installation (global inside my docker container, anyway), which can require elevated permissions to install things and VS code wasn't running as root in the container. According to the vs code python extension docs:

Note: If you're using a global environment and VS Code is not running elevated, linter installation may fail. In that case, either run VS Code elevated, or manually run the Python package manager to install the linter at an elevated command prompt for the same environment: for example sudo pip3 install pylint (macOS/Linux) or pip install pylint (Windows, at an elevated prompt)

Upvotes: 0

neuops
neuops

Reputation: 352

I ran into this problem while learning django and the terminal would not let me pip install anything.

Create a virtual environment in shell and then use the path of the environment as your interpreter. This worked for me.

Note: You might want to create to create the environment in a different shell altogether and then upload the folder of the environment into vscode. Then you open up the settings file in the environment folder.

This image will hopefully give you a good idea. Click Here

Upvotes: 0

Seyhak Ly
Seyhak Ly

Reputation: 146

For WSL users:

If you have your work files in linux subsystem path, you still need pip for windows in order to VSCode to use it.

Upvotes: 3

Ranjita Shetty
Ranjita Shetty

Reputation: 625

For Windows system check the environment variable>System variables check the Path variable for the python path.(if not found set the path variable for python)

Copy the path and paste under vscode>file>preferences>settings>python.pythonPath

It worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

Rafik Saad
Rafik Saad

Reputation: 646

Installing python3-pip fixed the issue for me.

apt-get install python3-pip

Upvotes: 11

Manohar Reddy Poreddy
Manohar Reddy Poreddy

Reputation: 27395

I have multiple python versions:

2.7
3.6
3.7
  1. Tell the vscode/ visual studio code, which version to use:

press the following (Show All Commands): Ctrl + Shift + P
paste the following: Python: Select Interpreter
Select one of the version that it shows, I have selected python 3.7.3 64-bit

  1. Update python path in settings:

press Ctrl + , to open Settings
search for python.pythonPath
change python to /usr/bin/python3.7

Note: this may not be needed, however, make sure /usr/bin/python3.7 really exists for you, you may have at a different path like /usr/local/bin/python3.7, etc.

  1. I had pip but it was 2.7, but since I am choosing python 3, it's pip needs to be installed

Run the following command in Terminal: apt-get install python3-pip

  1. Restart vscode

With the above steps, all issues got resolved. Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 61

muhammad ali e
muhammad ali e

Reputation: 677

try Ctrl+Shift+P then type 

Python: Select Interpreter

and select the python version.

Upvotes: 13

Kamil Naja
Kamil Naja

Reputation: 6682

On Ubuntu:

Make sure, that you have Python and pip installed.

Go to Settings, type python.py in search input. This should find Python Path settings.

Remove this path (if it is currently setted), save. Exit Code and set this to current value.

For me is /usr/bin/python3

Upvotes: 1

Elan Utta
Elan Utta

Reputation: 1134

Man you can only change the interpreter.

Go in (ctrl + shift + p), then type Python: Select Interpreter, this way you choose the version that your extension needs.

This worked for me.

Upvotes: 99

Mohit Dabas
Mohit Dabas

Reputation: 2361

1.Select the File > Preferences > Settings command (⌘,) to open your User Settings.

2.Search and Create or modify an entry for python.pythonPath with the full path to the Python executable according to your requirements.For Example i changed it to python2.6 path to this path /usr/local/bin/python3.

Upvotes: 6

sean.wu
sean.wu

Reputation: 1325

On Ubuntu16.04, I worked with Python3 in vscode and

apt-get install python3-pip

solves my problem.

That's because I discover that: Under my terminal, I type the pip -V. It displays it's for Python2, not for Python3.

Upvotes: 120

gold shit
gold shit

Reputation: 51

(on mac)if you are using python3 but vscode told you pip was not installed , you could change python version on vscode bottom. And I guess you are using another terminal but not bash , vscode's default terminal is bash. Bash don't know you have install pip@2.

Upvotes: 4

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