Visual Studio Code – Make venv default terminal for Project in VSCode

I have a project in VSCode 1.86.2 on Windows 10 where it used to open terminals with venv automatically activated. Very handy.

It stopped working and I have not been able to turn this feature back on. There is no associated error message.

Setup

My pseudo path is like:

A pseudo path looks like:

C/
├─ Users/
├─ AlGrant/
│  ├─ test_pyrtlsdr/ 
│  │  ├─ .vscode/
│  │  │  ├─ settings.json
│  │  ├─ .venv/
│  │  │  ├─ Scripts/
│  │  │  │  ├─ python.exe
│  │  ├─ src/

Answers Searched

#1

I have tried to reactivate this feature by following this post which called for me to edit settings.json in .vscode directory and to add:

"python.terminal.activateEnvironment": true 

or the second answer suggested:

"settings": {
"python.terminal.activateEnvInCurrentTerminal": true,
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": "~/venv/bin/python"
}

or even :

{
"python.terminal.activateEnvInCurrentTerminal": true,
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": "~/venv/bin/python"
}

Neither of those options worked. I presume on windows the path should be written : "/.venv/Scripts/python.exe" instead of bin? (which I tried)

#2

Another post here stated that the setting should be :

    {
       "python.defaultInterpreterPath": "${workspaceFolder}/.venv/bin/python"
    }

Again I also tried :

    {
       "python.defaultInterpreterPath": "${workspaceFolder}/.venv/Scripts/python"
    }

#3

And yet another post here suggested setting it vai the settings cog (bottom right):

And I added it like:

I note this settings file is located in the AppDataRoamingCodeUser folder (not project folder).

Does venv work

I have confirmed that I can manually activate the venv from command prompt – so thats not broken.

I note that the bottom right of VSCode suggests that it is using venv:

How can I have new terminals in VSCode activate the venv?