How can I get rid of unnecessary paths being printed in Visual studio Code Terminal?

Question

Every time I run my python script in VScode I get the following lines printed in the terminal:

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E:\My Laptop\Coding\Python\Study files\Projects>C:/ProgramData/Anaconda3/Scripts/activate

(base) E:\My Laptop\Coding\Python\Study files\Projects>conda activate base

(base) E:\My Laptop\Coding\Python\Study files\Projects>C:/ProgramData/Anaconda3/python.exe "e:/My Laptop/Coding/Python/Study files/Projects/100_Clean.py"

than program executes normally. When execution ends, I get this line:

(base) E:\My Laptop\Coding\Python\Study files\Projects>

Why are these lines being printed? How can i turn them off in VSCode settings?

Answer 1

To my knowledge, there is no way to hide the paths because the VS Code Integrated Terminal is basically using your OS/system's underlying terminal. And running Python scripts on a terminal usually requires you to specify a path.

One workaround is to use "prompt" command in the same terminal window before running your code. Like this:

prompt $$

The other workaround is to use debug console as suggested by others.

Answer 2

The most convenient way is to edit your user settings.json like so

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\cmd.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": ["/K", "prompt $G"],

Now my integrated terminal looks like so

>C:/Users/guido/miniconda3/Scripts/activate
(base) >conda activate condavenv
(condavenv) >

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Alternatively, you can look for Code Runner extension in the marketplace - which has the option to do exactly what you want: only the output of the code is printed and nothing else .

Answer 3

(base) E:\My Laptop\Coding\Python\Study files\Projects> isn't from your program, it is the area to type your command in the command prompt (in VS Code).

Answer 4

One of the above working solution seems to have been deprecated; you can adjust your vscode settings for "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows":

example:

 "Command Prompt": {
       "path": ["C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\cmd.exe"],
       "args": ["/K", "prompt $G$S "],  }