VS Code does not find Python kernel

Question

I am running VS Code on a Mac OS. I have installed Jupyter extension but I'm unable connect to my Python virtual environments. When I create a new virtual environment with Anaconda, VS Code appropriately recognizes the virtual environments but the ones I create manually do not work.

I have no problem launching Jupyter Notebook in the browser from the command line but I'd like to be able to use VS Code. Also, I have no issues running plain Python scripts in the virtual environment I have created.

I have tried the following steps:

1. Create a new virtual environment:

   cd ~/.virtuaenvs/
   python3 -m venv new_venv
   

2. Activate the new virtual environment:

   source new_venv/bin/activate
   

3. Install ipykernel and jupyter

   pip install ipykernel jupyter
   

4. Add environment to kernels list

   python3 -m ipykernel install --name "new_venv" --user
   

5. Restart VS Code. But the new_venv does not show in my list of kernels when opening a Jupyter notebook.

Answer 1

Had to update the Jupyter extension, even though I had auto-update on.