Run Python In Visual Studio Code

02-05-2021
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Figure 10 – Intellisense in Visual Studio Code for Python Snippets in Visual Studio Code. Snippets come in quite handy when you need to implement a block of statements in your code without having to write the entire syntax. You can consider this as a code template for a block such as an if-else block, and for statement block or a try-catch block. Step 1: Install Visual Studio Code VSCode is generally available f or free but further options (e.g. Azure DevOps Server) can be purchased via a professional or enterprise licence. However, the free version is in my opinion more than sufficient for personal use. Feb 10, 2020 After clicking to run the Python file in the terminal, Visual Studio Code will automatically write the path of the Python application and the Python file, again just like we did manually in the previous article. Now, everything is just happening inside the same application for our convenience! Run the code you've written to this point by pressing Ctrl + F5 or selecting Debug Start without Debugging menu item. Visual Studio warns you if you still have errors in your code. When you run the program, a console window appears displaying the results, just as if you'd run a Python interpreter with PythonApplication1.py from the command line.

Is there any keyboard shortcut to run code from Visual Studio Code?
Is there any keyboard shortcut to run code from Visual Studio Code?
Jun-04-2018, 07:33 PM (This post was last modified: Jun-04-2018, 07:46 PM by python300.)
I know you can right click in the editor and select Run Python File in Terminal.
Or I can right click the name of the python file from left panel and select Run Python File in Terminal.
But what i am trying to find is if there is a keyboard shortcut to run the code?
My bad. I was missing code runner extension and so was unable to see the Run triangle symbol at the top of code editor.
Once I installed Code Runner, I can see the Run Code symbol (triangle) and om highlighting it, I see the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + N
Jun-04-2018, 09:39 PM (This post was last modified: Jun-04-2018, 09:39 PM by python300.)
I have installed Visual Studio Code and added extensions - Python, Code Runner.
With Code Runner, now I can see the Run Code symbol (triangle) and on highlighting it, I see the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + N
But when I try to use it to run the code that asks for user input, I can't find a way to provide the input.
When I try to enter user input, I get error message 'Cannot edit in read-only editor'
I think this is because I am missing some configuration part for Code Runner like setting up PATH or some other Workspace settings.
Please assist me in identifying what all configuration will I need to do and how?
[UPDATE]: I did select 'Add Python 3.6 to PATH' while installing Python.
I have attached screenshots for reference.
Note: Even now when I right click and select 'Run Python File in Terminal' for the same program, I can enter user input fine and get the expected output.
Jun-04-2018, 11:35 PM
Install Code Runner,get a button and shortcut Ctrl+Alt+N.
Can also build own task that run Python.
Aug-07-2018, 09:12 PM
Finally I got answer to my second question (which I wanted to post as a new question) from SO.
Answer:
You can provide input by telling code runner to use the terminal.
To do this, there is a setting called code-runner.runInTerminal, set to false by default, that you can set to true.
In the lower left hand corner of the screen on 'VS code' you'll see the icon which will take you to settings when clicked.
Thank you to the helper who answered it there.
I wanted to post that answer here so if someone like me comes here searching for the same thing, he/she will find help here.
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Run Python In Visual Studio Code

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There isn’t much support for Python in Microsoft new code editor Visual Studio Code (VSCode), but there is a neat way to run your Python code right inside VSCode. It’s a feature called tasks and while the examples give are for compiling code, you can pretty much just run any program against the code you are editing in VSCode.

Tasks

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So let’s dive in and set-up a task that runs the traditional 'Hello World!' program within VSCode. In Python this is print 'Hello World!'.

First go and open up VSCode on an empty folder via the menu steps File -> Open Folder. The do Ctrl+Shift+P, then Configure Task and press Enter. This will create a folder called .settings and a file called tasks.json where you will configure your task. Comment out the first example task and put the following Python task at the top of the file and save it.

To run the task you can simply do Ctrl+Shift+B, as you’ve only defined one task for this folder. If you put another task at the top of the settings file then that task will be run. If you need to select a task do Ctrl+Shift+P, type Run Tasks, select python and press Enter.

You can find out more about tasks in VSCode here.

Result

The result of all this is that you now can run a python script and have the output displayed next to the code, as shown below.

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I’ve only played with VSCode for a little while, but it seems solid and friendly. Hopefully support for more languages will be coming soon, but at least you can run any compiler or interpreter against your code using tasks.