Running Python in Visual Studio Community 2022

Question

My Visual Studio installation is supporting Python.

I started a new VS project for Python

VS seems to come with a very old Python version (2.7.xxx)

How can I change VS Python version?

I downloaded a Python example and pasted into VS editor.

It is an example that uses some VTK primitives. It does not run as expected.

Somehow I have to tell VS where to find the VYK primitives.

I right-clicked on the new project --> Properties but I cannot see how to tell VS to add an external library for Python.

I tried to set up Python environment but VS does not connect it.

I would greatly appreciate some guidelines possibly with examples.

Thank you so much

Answer 1

Hello @mauede ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

You can click View => Other Windows => Python Environments to open Python Environments window and check or select the detected/installed Python environment.

If you want to install another version of Python, you can download it separately from official website: Python. Choose the correct version that you want especially 32 bit or 64 bit. Double click the setup file and wait for it finishes installing, remember to select Add to Path option when installing it. After that VS should automatically detect it and show the available Python in Python environment.

You may use following code to add an external library.

import sys
sys.path.append(package_path)
import package

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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