pip linter install fails

[wlbentley]

Environment data

VS Code version: 1.20.1
Python Extension version: 2018.1
Python Version: 3.6.4 (Homebrew & virtualenvwrapper)
OS and version: MacOS 10.13.3

Actual behavior

Using Cmd-Shift-P, I select for example 'mypy' which is not installed in my virtual environment. When I click Install, python3 -m pip install -U mypy --user fails, with message Can not perform a '--user' install. User site-packages are not visible in this virtualenv.

Expected behavior

Expect mypy to be installed in my virtual environment's site-packages directory.

Steps to reproduce:

• Set up virtual environment with virtualenvwrapper.
• Open vscode from the terminal with the virtual env already activated (workon...).
• Rest as described in Actual behavior.

I see that --user is hard-coded in pipInstaller.ts (which I suspect is doing the installing). Is there a way to override that setting? Or am I getting something wrong?

In the end, I was able to manually install the linter to be able to move forward, and that seems to be working correctly. Would be nice to be able to depend on the install procedure though.

Thanks.

Logs

Output from Python output panel

none

Output from Console window (Help->Developer Tools menu)

none

[MikhailArkhipov]

Try setting globalModuleInstallation to true

[wlbentley]

Yes. That worked. Pip successfully installed mypy to my virtual environment, as expected.

But now I'm confused about why it worked. globalModuleInstallation sounds like it should install to the main Python site-packages, not to the one in the virtual environment.

But perhaps I don't understand the logic behind it yet, so I'll just leave it at that.

Thanks so much.

[MikhailArkhipov]

It is just a workaround. Working on the actual fix for next update.

[wlbentley]

Got it. I'm fine with closing this issue. Thanks again.

[MikhailArkhipov]

I'll close it with the real fix :-)

[MikhailArkhipov]

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[farid220]

Hello Friends
I had the same issue and tried all of the solutions on github but no result
such as:
"code-runner.runInTerminal": true
"python.pythonPath": "/usr/local/bin/python3"
"globalModuleInstallation": true
and so on (granting root access for python path - and ....)
the solution was so simple and because the installer installs packages with python 3 , we should use pip3 (pip for python 3) either
just run this command and it is over

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

This is my first comment on github if I apologies previously if I have some styling and grammatical problem

[hadig]

For @farid220 solution you need to change default python to 3.x in the bottom left of vsCode

[ewanlee]

@farid220 This method is also valid for python2