Warning!: Python directory in tools was not discovered

[davidmoshal]

Ubuntu 20.04 Espressif sdk: 4.2

Problem: python interpreter not found.

This directory exists: ~/esp/esp-idf/tools But it has no .espressif subdirectory. ie: ~/esp/esp-idf/tools/.espressif does not exist.

This directory exists: ~/.espressif/tools, however if selected as the toolsPath, the python dir is not found.

Warning!: Python directory in tools was not discovered
answers {
  projectName: 'blinky',
  iDFPath: '/home/davem/esp/esp-idf',
  toolsPath: '/home/davem/.espressif/tools',
  isCpp: false,
  pythonDir: null,
  Additions: []
}
Generating Template with name"mair1"
Success

There is a python directory here though: /.espressif/python_env/idf4.2_py3.8_env, but I don't see how to set that separately from the tools directory.

Note: even though the python interpreter isn't found, the project still compiles and flashes just fine!

And opening a terminal in VSCode (ctl-shift-`) does find a python interpreter:

Detecting the Python interpreter
Checking "python" ...
Python 3.8.5
"python" has been detected
Adding ESP-IDF tools to PATH...
Not using an unsupported version of tool cmake found in PATH: 3.16.3.
Using Python interpreter in /home/davem/.espressif/python_env/idf4.2_py3.8_env/bin/python
Checking if Python packages are up to date...
Python requirements from /home/davem/esp/esp-idf/requirements.txt are satisfied.
Added the following directories to PATH:
  /home/davem/esp/esp-idf/components/esptool_py/esptool
  /home/davem/esp/esp-idf/components/espcoredump
  /home/davem/esp/esp-idf/components/partition_table
  /home/davem/esp/esp-idf/components/app_update
  /home/davem/.espressif/tools/xtensa-esp32-elf/esp-2020r3-8.4.0/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin
  /home/davem/.espressif/tools/xtensa-esp32s2-elf/esp-2020r3-8.4.0/xtensa-esp32s2-elf/bin
  /home/davem/.espressif/tools/esp32ulp-elf/2.28.51-esp-20191205/esp32ulp-elf-binutils/bin
  /home/davem/.espressif/tools/esp32s2ulp-elf/2.28.51-esp-20191205/esp32s2ulp-elf-binutils/bin
  /home/davem/.espressif/tools/cmake/3.16.4/bin
  /home/davem/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.10.0-esp32-20200709/openocd-esp32/bin
  /home/davem/.espressif/python_env/idf4.2_py3.8_env/bin
  /home/davem/esp/esp-idf/tools
Done! You can now compile ESP-IDF projects.