Miscellaneous

Select an Interpreter

The extension now exposes a command that will display a list of known (automatically discovered) interpreters. Selecting an item from this interpreter will automatically configure your workspace settings file settings.json to make use of this interpreter.
This now frees you from having to manually open the settings.json file and make the necessary changes.

How are the interpreters discovered?

• Standard paths such as /usr/local/bin, /usr/sbin, /sbin, C:\\Python2.7, etc. will be searched for interpreters
• Virtual environments located under the workspace (project) directory will be searched
• Conda environments will be listed

How to use this feature?

• Select the command Python: Select Workspace Interpreter from the [command palette](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_command-palette)
• Upon selecting the above command a list of discovered interpreters will be displayed in a quick pick list
• Selecting an interpreter from this list will update the settings.json file automatically.