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I'm using the newest version of Visual Studio Code and Python 3.6 (64 bit) on Windows 10.

I have the "Python" extension installed (the one made by Microsoft).

Every time I try to run a simple program [e.g., print("Hello, World!")] it says that "The command "python" wasn't spelled correctly or couldn't be found"! [Done] exited with code=1 in 0.034 seconds

It's a very simple Hello, World! program that doesn't really need much. Why is Visual Studio Code not letting me run a Python file?

This is where my Python executable is stored:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\python.exe
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Maybe there is problem with your interpreter.

Try this: Ctrl + Shift + P → Python: Select Interpreter → select your path (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\python.exe)

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments

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If you have installed Python from an executable file and not from the Windows Store, you can change your terminal setting from internal to external and make cmd as the default terminal in Visual Studio Code.

You can directly edit those setting from settings.json:

"terminal.explorerKind": "external",
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Command Prompt"
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