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Python Environments

Overview

The Python Environments extension for VS Code helps you manage Python environments and packages using your preferred environment manager, backed by its extensible APIs. This extension provides unique support for specifying environments for specific files, entire Python folders, or projects, including multi-root and mono-repo scenarios. The core feature set includes:

• 🌐 Create, delete, and manage environments
• 📦 Install and uninstall packages within the selected environment
• ✅ Create activated terminals
• 🖌️ Add and create new Python projects

Important: This extension requires version 2024.23, or later, of the Python extension (ms-python.python).

Features

The "Python Projects" fold shows you all of the projects that are currently in your workspace and their selected environments. From this view you can add more files or folders as projects, select a new environment for your project, and manage your selected environments.

The "Environment Managers" fold shows you all of the environment managers that are available on your machine with all related environments nested below. From this view, you can create new environments, delete old environments, and manage packages.

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Environment Management

The Python Environments panel provides an interface to create, delete and manage environments.

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To simplify the environment creation process, you can use "Quick Create" to automatically create a new virtual environment using:

• Your default environment manager (e.g., venv)
• The latest Python version
• Workspace dependencies

For more control, you can create a custom environment where you can specify Python version, environment name, packages to be installed, and more!

The following environment managers are supported out of the box:

Id	Name	Description
ms-python.python:venv	venv	Built-in environment manager provided by the Python standard library. Supports creating environments (interactive and quick create) and finding existing environments.
ms-python.python:system	System Installed Python	Global Python installs on your system, typically installed with your OS, from python.org, or any other OS package manager.
ms-python.python:conda	conda	The conda environment manager, as provided by conda distributions like Anaconda Distribution or conda-forge. Supports creating environments (interactive and quick create) and finding existing environments.
ms-python.python:pyenv	pyenv	The pyenv environment manager, used to manage multiple Python versions. Supports finding existing environments.
ms-python.python:poetry	poetry	The poetry environment manager, used for dependency management and packaging in Python projects. Supports finding existing environments.
ms-python.python:pipenv	pipenv	The pipenv environment manager, used for managing Python dependencies and environments. Only supports finding existing environments.

Supported Actions by Environment Manager

Environment Manager	Find Environments	Create	Quick Create
venv	✅	✅	✅
conda	✅	✅	✅
pyenv	✅
poetry	✅
system	✅	✅
pipenv	✅

Legend:

• Create: Ability to create new environments interactively.
• Quick Create: Ability to create environments with minimal user input.
• Find Environments: Ability to discover and list existing environments.…