Using Python environments in VS Code outside of python files

Question

The Python vscode extension allows us to select venv as well as python interpreters. I seems like the Python extension is only started when opening a .py file. So before that, it is not possible to use it to switch env. I would like to create a vscode extension allowing me to do the same for other types of files. (so without the need of opening a .py file) Is this possible? How should it be done?

Thx a lot,

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 10 '21 at 15:04

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If you read the activationEvents section, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/blob/main/package.json#L59 you know that a lot of things can trigger the extension to load, such as adding certain files to the workspace, setup.py for example.

answered Dec 10 '21 at 15:04

Lex Li

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '21 at 15:13

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what I was looking for is adding

"extensionDependencies": [
    "ms-python.python"
],

in the package.json of my extension

answered Dec 15 '21 at 15:13

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Using Python environments in VS Code outside of python files

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