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`command: 'python.setInterpreter' not found` in VSCode 1.20

See original GitHub issue

Environment data

VS Code version: 1.20 Python Extension version: 2018.1.0 Python Version: 3.6.4 OS and version: Windows 10 Build 16299

Actual behavior

An error notification saying command: 'python.setInterpreter' not found appears

Expected behavior

Trying to set the python interpreter pulls up a list of interpreter choices.

Steps to reproduce:

Install VSCode 1.20
Install Python 3.6.4
Open a python project with VSCode
Press Ctrl+Shift+P to pull up the commands and select Python: Select Interpreter

Logs

Output from Python output panel
I discovered this trying to reselect an interpreter to force the plugin to load. There is no Python output panel because the plugin has not successfully loaded.
Output from Console window (Help->Developer Tools menu)

/C:/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:4183 Activating extension `ms-python.python` failed: Cannot find module './banner'.
R._logMessageInConsole @ /C:/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:4183
/C:/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:253 [Extension Host] Activating extension `ms-python.python` failed:  Cannot find module './banner'
t.log @ /C:/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:253
/C:/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:253 [Extension Host] Here is the error stack:  Error: Cannot find module './banner'
	at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
	at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
	at Function.o._load (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\node\extensionHostProcess.js:664:413)
	at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
	at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
	at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\viz_s\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.1.0\out\client\extension.js:21:18)
	at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\viz_s\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2018.1.0\out\client\extension.js:215:3)
	at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
	at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
	at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
/C:/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:2925 command 'python.setInterpreter' not found

Issue Analytics

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:12 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

SiqingYucommented, Apr 16, 2018

@sj4nes This saved me. I had VSCode Sync extension and pulled my settings and extension from a gist. Cleaning the .vscode/ solved the problem.

3reactions

sj4nescommented, Mar 7, 2018

Okay, it wasn’t enough to uninstall/reinstall VSCode nor disabling all extensions except for the Python code nor uninstalling/reinstalling the Python extension. I had to rename/delete the .vscode directory for a fresh “extensions” state.

Hope this helps others in the future.

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