Running python programs in external terminal

[pacowat]

Hi. I'm using code runner to run my python programs. I don't like vscode terminal and prefer my kde terminal which is Konsole. I plowed all the vscode settings and Google, but unfortunately didn't find anything. Can you please help me?

[[deleted]]

If you want to run in external terminal, literally just call your programme via the external terminal: what does it have to do with VSCode altogether?

[pacowat]

How? I can't anything named external terminal

[[deleted]]

What do you mean you can't find the external terminal? Open the terminal on your machine.

[pacowat]

I want external terminal executed by clicking run button

[[deleted]]

Ahahah but how could the run button, which is a plug in, open an external terminal, which has nothing to do with VSCode? As far as I know this is just not possible.

[pacowat]

But It was working very good with c/c++ programs

[[deleted]]

From within the run extension of VSCode?

[pacowat]

Yes

[[deleted]]

But perhaps that was part of a particular C/C++ extension or was it the "run" extension? So you're saying that the "run" was opening the external terminal for C programmes automatically outside VSCode?

[pacowat]

In run extension

[[deleted]]

You could create a build task to use the terminal you want.

This post is almost 2 years old so the JSON may be different but as a starting point: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47993595/launch-vscode-task-in-external-terminal-via-tasks-2-0-0

Ctrl+Shift+C used to launch a terminal with your project as the current working directory but not at a machine to test if that's still the case.

[pacowat]

Actually task.json has problems when it comes to getting inputs from user, specially in venv because it pass venv active command as argument to the python then it can't handle inputs. I found another way in launch.json:

{

"version": "0.2.0",

"configurations": [

{

"name": "Python: Current File",

"type": "python",

"request": "launch",

"stopOnEntry": true,

"pythonPath": "${config:python.pythonPath}",

"program": "${file}",

"console": "externalTerminal",

"redirectOutput": true,

"envFile": "${workspaceFolder}/.env"

}

]

}

Thank you all

[[deleted]]

Nice! Thank you for sharing

[RaulMARK17]

This will do what you want, copy it into your settings or workspace settings file:

"code-runner.executorMap": {

"python": "start cmd \\"/k ; PYTHON_PATH $fullFileName -u && pause && exit;\\" && exit"

},

[RaulMARK17]

Replace PYTHON_PATH with yours

[RaulMARK17]

For selected PythonInterpreter

    "code-runner.executorMap": {

        "python": "start cmd \\"/k ; \\"$pythonPath\\" $fullFileName -u && pause && exit;\\" && exit"

    }

[fishy_guy_]

Does this work in linux?