VS Code portable on Linux is still using for packages local user folder instead of the enviroment folder, and because of that imports fail

Question

I created a virtual environment with venv.

venv --python=/workspace/dev/python3.9 /var_path/var_virtual_env

In Visual Studio Code(portable version -Linux) I have set:

"python.venvPath": "/var_path/var_virtual_env",
"python.formatting.provider": "black"

The environment is seen in VSCode:

Code with python built-ins works without a problem.

From VS Code terminal with virtual environment activated using pip I installed different packages and I expected the packages to be imported in the virtual environment, but instead seems that they are installed in the/home/user_name/local/lib/python3.6.

Also I noticed that the configurations likepylint.d etc are at same location in "local". The pylint was set thru VSCode.

To fix it I installed the packages in the environment outside VSCode, but the editor doesn't sees them. Example httpx:

But they are in the environment, pip freeze output:

How can I fix this ?

Answer 1

In a terminal where the scarlette environment is activated, copy the output of which python.

Set in settings.json the following line:

{
    "python.pythonPath": "paste_the_output_here"
    ....
}

I don't know if it will work in your case but that did the trick for me several times.

Answer 2

Click on:

And then choose python from venv.

Let know what happened.