After updating VS Code today, the Python native REPL no longer uses the selected Python interpreter/virtual environment for the workspace. Instead it always uses the global default interpreter path ...

The May 2020 update of Visual Studio Code's Python extension -- by far the most popular tool in the marketplace -- is mostly routine with a lot of fixes and minor tweaks, though developers showed ...

just install VSCode in some none-default location, like C:\mypath\mytools\vscode\ and then try to run an update, will fail with a popup (->screenshot below) pointing to this log ...

The main update in the new Python extension for VS Code is that it's easier to select or change a Python interpreter path in a file system.