If you already initialized your project before changing this setting, you must delete the old environment and generate a new one inside your project directory:
Pylance, however, looks for a Python interpreter (and its associated site-packages directory) in one of three places:
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If you completed the steps above and Pylance still shows errors, try these three quick maintenance steps:
The fastest and cleanest way to resolve the missing import error is to select the Poetry virtual environment directly inside VS Code. Step 1: Get the path of your Poetry environment If you already initialized your project before changing
If you prefer to keep Poetry's environment files centralized in the global cache but still want a seamless workspace setup, you can configure Pylance's analysis path settings.
Pylance reads .env files before analysis, giving it the missing context. Pylance reads
Replace the python.venvPath string with the correct path for your operating system. This tells Pylance exactly where to look for external packages. Troubleshooting Persistent Missing Imports
If you frequently create new Poetry projects and do not want to change paths for every single workspace, you can tell Pylance to monitor the entire directory where Poetry holds all of its virtual environments. Open your global VS Code Settings ( Ctrl+, or Cmd+, ). Search for python.analysis.venvFolders . Add a new item to this list based on your operating system: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs