How to activate conda environment in vs code

Question

I created a virtual environment using miniconda. I'm using Visual Studio Code with Mask rcnn, but I can't start the virtual environment in Visual Studio Code, I get an error.Sevinirim

Answer 1

Please read this: https://py-vscode.readthedocs.io/en/latest/files/venv.html#selecting-switching-between-the-environments-in-vs-code

Press ctrl+shift+P to open VS Code’s command palette.

Type interpreter in the search box. And select the Python: Select Interpreter option. You should see a list of all the available (both conda and virtual environments are shown) python environments. You should also see your recently created myenv environment there. Toggle and select your environment and you are good to go.

After ctrl+shift+P

Select conda env from a list

Answer 2

You are getting this error because conda activate env-name won't work in a VS Code Powershell (PS) terminal. When opening terminal in Windows VS Code, this is typically the default terminal shell.

A couple solutions:

1. Open a new VS Code terminal session that uses Command Prompt (cmd) as its shell - see this answer
2. Change your default shell to cmd (instructions below)

From VS Code doc's: Conda environments can't be automatically activated in the VS Code Integrated Terminal if the default shell is set to PowerShell. To change the shell, see Integrated terminal - Terminal profiles.