VSCode: There is no Pip installer available in the selected environment

Question

I\'m trying to run the autopep8 linter on a Python file in VSCode.

I\'ve followed the instructions here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments and selec

Answer 1

I have multiple python versions:

2.7
3.6
3.7

1. Tell the vscode/ visual studio code, which version to use:

press the following (Show All Commands): Ctrl + Shift + P
paste the following: Python: Select Interpreter
Select one of the version that it shows, I have selected python 3.7.3 64-bit

2. Update python path in settings:

press Ctrl + , to open Settings
search for python.pythonPath
change python to /usr/bin/python3.7

Note: this may not be needed, however, make sure /usr/bin/python3.7 really exists for you, you may have at a different path like /usr/local/bin/python3.7, etc.

3. I had pip but it was 2.7, but since I am choosing python 3, it's pip needs to be installed

Run the following command in Terminal: apt-get install python3-pip

4. Restart vscode

With the above steps, all issues got resolved. Hope that helps.