Python 3 on visual studio code

Question

So I have been looking online trying to find how can I compile my python program using python 3 on visual studio code. However, it seems that they are not much information out there regarding how to do it. Below is what my task.json file looks like. Is there something I am doing?

{
// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
// for the documentation about the tasks.json format
"version": "0.1.0",
"command": "Python",
"isShellCommand": true,
"args": ["${file}"],
"showOutput": "always"
}

Any advise will be great thank you

Have you tried installing any extensions? The top downloaded python extension works well enough for me. — Jeff Mercado
– Jeff Mercado, Commented Dec 13, 2016 at 7:15
Thank you for your answer. I just checked and I do have the extension Python for VS Code installed. But where in my file do I put this shebang instruction as they mentioned "To instruct on Python 2 or 3 the shebang must be present at the top of the python file !#/usr/bin/python2 or !#/usr/bin/python3"? Putting !#/usr/bin/python3 on top of my python file still does not run with python 3 — Celaro
– Celaro, Commented Dec 13, 2016 at 7:46

PeeDi · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-23 04:51:10Z

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In VSCode, you need to specify the Workspace that you intend to use to run using particular Python version.

Press "Ctrl+Shift+P" and type "Interpreter" and select "Python: Select Workspace Interpreter" Selecting Python Interpreter

This will list the different versions installed on your machine. Select what you want.

Select the Python version

edited Mar 23, 2017 at 4:51

answered Mar 22, 2017 at 21:56

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2 Comments

Celaro Over a year ago

Thank you @PeeDi! I have been using pyCharm in the meantime as I could not find a way.

Peterino Over a year ago

This sets "python.pythonPath": "/usr/bin/python3" in the user settings. Great, thanks!

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