I am trying to use the Interactive window of VSCode, but it loads the wrong version of Python. I want it to load the version of the virtual environment (shown bottom left), but it defaults to something else.
I have tried this approach, but I can't simply click the version and change it because it isn't included in the drop down list. I have tried adjusting the settings.json file python.defaultInterpreterPath but that didn't work (perhaps my syntax is wrong). I have also made sure that jupyter is installed in the virtual environment.
I always run VSCode in the project folder from the command line using code . but strangely, something that has worked is running it using code (without the period). This is not a solution however, because the workspace folder is not updated, meaning that when I change the project I'm working on, VSCode opens in previous workspace.

