Visual Studio Code pylint: Unable to import 'protorpc'

Question

I'm using pylint in Visual Studio Code to develop a Google App Engine (GAE) Cloud Endpoint API in Python. I'm unable to resolve a lint error. I don't know what's causing the error, but at a guess, pylint cannot find the protorpc library?

The recommended fix in Troubleshooting Linting is to configure workspace settings to point to fully qualified python executable. I have done this, but the lint error remains.

protorpc itself is installed to:

~/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/protorpc-1.0/protorpc 

...and this contains the remote.py module that cannot be imported:

__init__.py             generate_python.py      protojson.py            transport.py definition.py           google_imports.py       protourlencode.py       util.py descriptor.py           message_types.py        registry.py             webapp generate.py             messages.py             remote.py               wsgi generate_proto.py       protobuf.py             static 

I've added this path to $PYTHONPATH (along with the kitchen sink):

export GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK=~/google-cloud-sdk export APPENGINE_PATH=$GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK/platform/google_appengine  export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK/lib export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK/lib/googlecloudsdk export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK/lib/googlecloudsdk/api_lib export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK/platform/google_appengine/lib export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK/platform/google_appengine/lib/protorpc-1.0/protorpc 

The application runs locally and also when deployed, so this appears to be just a lint error, but it's frustrating that I can't solve it.

Using third-party libraries states:

The Python runtime in the standard environment includes the Python standard library, the App Engine libraries, and a few bundled third-party packages.

Because of this, I assumed 'the App Engine libraries' includes protorpc, but I'm unsure. Moreover, Adding the Cloud Endpoints Frameworks library to the sample API only requires google-endpoints be installed to the app's lib directory:

pip install -t lib google-endpoints --extra-index-url=https://gapi-pypi.appspot.com/admin/nurpc-dev --ignore-installed 

My point is, I don't think I've not installed something, and I don't think I'm missing anything in my (web) app's lib directory.

Answer 1

Changing the library path worked for me. Hitting Ctrl + Shift + P and typing python interpreter and choosing one of the available shown. One was familiar (as pointed to a virtualenv that was working fine earlier) and it worked. Take note of the version of python you are working with, either 2.7 or 3.x and choose accordingly

Answer 2

I was facing same issue (VS Code).Resolved by below method

1) Select Interpreter command from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)

2) Search for "Select Interpreter"

3) Select the installed python directory

Ref:- https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments#_select-an-environment