VSCode doesn't detect virtual enviroment

[soundscool11]

Hello, I am having trouble with the virtual environment. I used python -m venv venv to create the virtual environment, but the python interpreter doesn't detect the venv at all. I tried to add the interpreter path manually (./venv/Scripts/python) it shows the error that "An Invalid Python interpreter is selected, please try changing it to enable features such as IntelliSense, linting, and debugging." Here's my environment variables PATH. Please help me... I am stuck

[brettcannon]

What happens if you run the Python interpreter that was created by the virtual environment? If we are printing that message it usually means the virtual environment isn't usable. I'm also surprised python worked if you are using Python 3.8 as that should provide python3 and python3.8 but not python. And I'm not sure why you have two separate directories for pointing at Python.

My recommendation is to use our Create Environment command which will take care of all of this for you.