Trouble running Python 3+ on Mac OSX Catalina

Question

I am attempting to execute python code on my local computer using VSCode. When I attempt to import numpy, pandas etc, I receive "Unable to import 'numpy' pylint(import-error)".

When I look at "python --version", I receive Python 2.7.16.

Have read a few threads that have included uninstalling Python extension, changing the settings.json files to the path of the python 3.8 and changing the bash_profile to export PythonPath, however when I run the code, the errors return and the version returns to Python 2.7.16.

Any ideas on what I have missed?

Answer 1

First try running from the console, and instead of using

python yourscript.py

which runs python 2, run

python3 yourscript.py

Hope this helps!