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Installing Python and Jupyter on fresh macOS multiple prompts #20635
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Clicking on Select Interpreter shows a quick pick, which tells me there is Python is not installed
Picking the option opens the walkthrough, which suggests to brew install, and it fails as I don't have brew yet.
Peng Lyu (@rebornix) please could you file issues related to python extension in their repo
Eg the walk through and interpreter picker is clearly on issue in python extensionNot sure who is initiating the Python environment access so let's start the investigation from here
please could you share the debug logs with the latest insider release and pre/release
If it's not recommended to use the default Python on macOS, I expect not to see any prompt from system or Python extension.
This is a bug, can be fixed.
Prompt from macOS, it's probably triggered by the access of Python interpreter
It happens when extension attempts to check whether
usr/bin/pythonis a valid interpreter or not by running the file, so not sure what we can do there. Once Jupyter handles microsoft/vscode-jupyter#12719 which ensures discovery no longer happens at startup, the prompt should start appearing.Picking the option opens the walkthrough, which suggests to brew install, and it fails as I don't have brew yet.
We can recommend
python.orgin the text stating to use that if brew is not installed.- added a commit that references this issue
on Mar 2, 2023 Verification steps:
- Use a fresh macOS
- Make sure Jupyter extension is not installed
- Open Python file to activate Python extension, and ensure the prompts mentioned don't show up
- If brew is not installed, that is logged in the terminal with a link to
python.org: Installing Python and Jupyter on fresh macOS multiple prompts #20635 (comment).
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on Apr 20, 2023
On a freshly installed macOS, the very moment we install Python and Jupyter extension per kernel source suggestion (Select Kernel -> Install Recommended Extensions), I got a prompt from the system and an error notification from Jupyter
Not sure who is initiating the Python environment access so let's start the investigation from here. If it's not recommended to use the default Python on macOS, I expect not to see any prompt from system or Python extension.