Visual Studio Code – Why does VS Code not find requests.auth in a Conda Environment where the command line does?

Shortly, a script of mine that had run just fine stopped working, throwing a

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests.auth'

I don’t remember having changed the Conda Environment the script uses.

Everything worked fine one day and stopped the next. I don’t know which parameter has changed.

I tried several paths to find a solution but was not successful. Among them were:

• seting up a new, clean conda environment, definitely installed requests

• clearing VS Codes cache

• several reboots

The strange part is this: When I run the following commands in an interactive session in the shell, it works and I receive a "Response [200]".

When I run it in a Jupyter Notebook or .py file in VS Code, I get above mentioned ModuleNotFoundError. Same goes for executing the file from the command line.

All above tests were conducted in the same Conda environment which definitely has requests installed.

Also: It does work in a virtual environment I have access to to which my VS Code settings are synced. So maybe not VS Code but something local to my machine?

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

basic = HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'pass')

requests.get('https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass', auth=basic)

Some specs:

• OS: Windows 10

• Python: 3.12.2

• Requests: 2.31.0

• Conda: 24.1.2

I’m grateful for any suggestions that nudge me in the right direction.