E0401:Unable to import 'flask'

Question

Am new in flask development and trying to import flask in my project but Pylint is giving this error in VSCode E0401:Unable to import \'flask

Answer 1

Due to the fact that you are using a virtual environment, first of all it's required that Pylint is installed inside this virtual env.

Furthermore, you need to add the following entry to your workspace settings to avoid the [pylint] E0401 error:

"python.linting.pylintPath": "/path/to/your/virtualenv/bin/pylint"

This overrides the user settings (global settings) and instructs VSCode to use the Pylint version within your virtual env (instead of the global one). That was probably the point you was missing ;-)