17 Apr 2016CPOL
How to configure Visual Studio code to work with Python3
![Configure Configure](/uploads/1/2/6/2/126262081/710887646.png)
While Visual Studio Code is the best IDE for sure but it is really difficult and tiring to try without guide. Here is how to setup Visual Studio Code on Mac for debugging Arduino, WordPress etc common things for the iTerm2 + ZSH + Homebrew Users. On my Mac, the key combination are CMD+SHIFT+P for Command Palette CMD+SHIFT+B for Executing the program on Windows Ctrl+Shift+P to open the command palette Ctrl+Shift+B to run the program.
Introduction
I love Visual Studio Code, really – it’s the longest lasting fav thing I’ve had, like, for evah! … I used to hack on Sublime, but I deleted it last week (for evah) in favor of vs code … it's the business.
Anyway, my love for it aside – I was starting some R&D the other day using it, and couldn’t get the darn thing to play nice with the latest version of Python. Using V2, no hassle, but V3 … nope … and dig as I might, I couldn’t find what settings to change. I reached out to @code who sent me to the wiki that kinda helped, but not quite…
Configure VS Code for Python3
![Studio Studio](/uploads/1/2/6/2/126262081/241972882.png)
After a lot of poking around and going down rabbit holes, I found the solution, you need to tweak the tasks.json file to tell it to use Python V3.
To get to that file, in vscode (mac) cmd+shift+P – type ‘
task
’ – select ‘configure task runner
’, and edit the file to point the “command
” at “python3
”, and the (command line) args to point at ${file}
. Save, Debug/Run .. works! … now, back to coding. :)History
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