pythonVSCode, venv and pylint

Question

A newbie question. I am trying to get pythonVSCode working with a venv virtual environment for Python 3.6 on a Mac.

Following the documentation, I activated the virtual environment and launched VSCode from the terminal.

When VSCode suggested installing pylint, I tried using the pythonVSCode's "Install" button that came with the suggestion, but that threw an error in VSCode's terminal:

/usr/bin/python -m pip install pylint
$ /usr/bin/python -m pip install pylint
/usr/bin/python: No module named pip

I then installed pylint via the system (not VSCode's) terminal and within the virtual environment:

(venv) $ pip install pylint

... and re-launched VSCode from the terminal.

VSCode still suggests installing pylint.

I suspect this has something to do with paths. I expected launching VSCode from within the virtual environment will load that environment's interpreter including pylint in VSCode, but it seems not to be the case.

Answer 1

You are right, it's about paths. You should have something like this in your settings.json file:

{
  "python.pythonPath": "your_project_path/your_venv/Scripts/python",
  "python.linting.pylintPath": "your_project_path/your_venv/Scripts/pylint"
}

Answer 2

I had the same problem as of 07/2018.

Solution: activate your virtualenv:

source yourenv/bin/activate

in the terminal with the active virtualenv, do the following:

Install pylint in your virtualenv:

 (yourenv) user@machine/your/env/folder$ pip install pylint

Open VSCODE from the terminal, inside your virtualenv, using the "code" command. Let open only the new VSCode instance.

(yourenv) user@machine/your/env/folder$ code

Have fun coding using pylint.