Is it possible to activate a conda environment prefixed with a path from VSCode?

Question

For example conda create -p $PWD/env will create a new conda environment prefixed with the current working directory.

To activate the environment, I use the command conda activate $PWD/env .

VSCode has no problems seeing the environment. After selecting the correct interpreter and starting a new integrated terminal, VSCode tries to activate the environment with the following command conda activate env which does not work.

Is there a way to get VSCode to use the full path to activate the correct environment in the integrated terminal?

Answer 1

You can disable the automatic activation if you would rather do it manually, but currently the support isn't structured for this situation. Feel free to open a feature request at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python to support your use case.