VSCode doesn't recognize python cells - CVE instead

Question

I try to run a notebook with the .ipynb extension, and the Jupyter notebook doesn't allow me to convert the cell to Python. When I click on the language button in the right-down corner, Python is on the list but it converts it automatically to CVE.
What does this even mean? And how I can change it to Python?

Here is what appears to me:

And when I click on it, I got the following:

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved it as following:

Reason for the issue

There seems to be an issue between the Jupyter Notebook extension and the Dependency Analytics extension. (See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/7917, Answer from rchiodo )

Solution

I went to extensions ( in VS-Code ) and deactivated the Dependeny Analytics extension. After restarting VS-Code I was able to set python as the cell language