VsCode Remote Debugging, change pythonpath to point to docker container's python interpreter

Question

I currently have a tensorflow-gpu docker container fully built. I have a volume from my host's workspace ( $PWD ) to /workspace inside the docker container.

I can successfully remote debug the python scripts inside my workspace/docker's workspace folder, but as expected, my pylint and intellisense don't work inside vscode, as the pythonPath is set to my local python interpreter, and the pylint init-hooks are using my local python environment to figure out if it should squiggly line something.

How do I change my local vscode's pythonpath to point to the python interpreter on docker rather than on the host? I want pylint to be calibrated to the docker's environment rather than the local host's environment.

Answer 1

What you want is remote interpreter support which isn't supported yet. Please subscribe to this issue to know the status of this feature.

Answer 2

I followed up on Brett's answer and you can now do the following:

1. Install the remote-containers extension.
2. Click "shift+command(ctrl)+p" and type and select "remote-containers: open folder in remote docket container"

I hope this helps. More information is available here:

• https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-development
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/remote-python-development-in-visual-studio-code/
• https://youtu.be/jKB_nIoC1gQ