VSCode issue with Python versions and environments from Jupyter Notebooks

Issue: I am having issues with the environment and version of Python not matching the settings in VSCode, and causing issues with the packages I am trying to use in Jupyter notebooks. I am using a Windows 10 machine with Python 3.9.1 installed (including older versions), with Visual Studio Code 1.52.1 . Short summary - I install a package using pip. My guess is that it associates with the latest version of Python. I set up an interpreter in VS Code for that version of python, and try to import the package. The package is not found. If I call sys.version from the Jupyter notebook, I see that a default version of Python is running (3.8.5). The simple notebook throws an error because it cannot find that package that I installed with pip.

Screenshot that shows the associations:

This error is reproducible with only the

import pygmt  

command in the notebook, i.e. it does not depend on the other packages imported.

Question: How can I control the version that Jupyter notebooks will run in VSCode if changing the interpreter doesn't work? Every other issue like this that I have found was due to not choosing the correct interpreter. In this case, I have. Why is it not running that version of the interpreter?

Thank you.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65930454/vscode-issue-with-python-versions-and-environments-from-jupyter-notebooks January 28, 2021 at 11:03AM