If Python is not working in Visual Studio Code Terminal, you receive Python is not recognized, or the script fails to execute ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Ideally, it would behave just as it does now, but just implicitly sets the python interpreter as the one found without explicitly writing it out to settings.json. As detailed in a May 12 announcement ...

The new extension for Visual Studio Code aims to end the previous fragmentation and ensure a uniform workflow with Python environments.