Visual Studio Code Python 3 Command/Install Error

Question

When I've been opening VS Code lately I've been getting this message saying

The "python3" command requires the command line developer tools. Would you like to install the tools now?

Everytime I click yes and the installer prompts me that it can't be found on the server. Not sure what's going on here. I tried looking at other posts but didn't really see a similar issue. Maybe I missed something.

I'm running the latest version of Python 3 when I check it in the terminal.

On MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H2).

Answer 1

According to your description and feedback, the cause of this problem is that the installation tool pip cannot be used. You can use the following methods to solve it:

1. You can reinstall pip manually. Install pip.
2. Usually, python comes with pip, you can also download python again. Install Python.
3. You can also use the conda command to install what you need when Anaconda is installed. Use conda.