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Add interpreter tag

Open JelmerKorten opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Heya,

Can I suggest adding an interpreter embed. The amount of times we have to explain VSCode selecting interpreter / the right terminal python version activated is relatively high. All the threads "I pip installed it but the module is still not found" can be started with a link to this embed, it will explain the basics on how to set it up and pip install in the right environment. There are always a few cases where this won't be enough, but in that case we have to debug and find out more information from OP in any case.

Thanks!

JelmerKorten avatar Jan 27 '24 07:01 JelmerKorten

While I agree that it is a common issue, I think adding a tag for it might not be helpful because 1) the solution can vary a lot based on circumstance, and 2) many details would have to be cut for it to fit in a tag.

You could try guiding them to an external resource which goes into more detail since length is less of an issue (such as this one that I wrote a while back), but you should keep in mind that it won't cover every possible case either.

There is also the !dashmpip tag which explains using python -m pip ..., but I'm usually a bit hesitant to use it because of its wording. Maybe we could rewrite it to be more specific to this issue?

(PS, tag suggestions belong in python-discord/meta)

n0Oo0Oo0b avatar Jan 27 '24 08:01 n0Oo0Oo0b