installing pep8 fails about vscode-python

[DonJayamanne]

Please could you try installing pep8 manually from the terminal.
Try the following command:

/home/yolen/Desktop/data-analysis/azureenv/bin/python -m pip install pep8

[JensMadsen]

that virtual env died so I cannot try. I think that my problem is due to my conda installation. When I click install pep8 it uses /usr/bin/python and not my conda installation elsewhere. So in the vs code terminal i get

yolen@yolen-ThinkPad-X260:~$ which python
/home/yolen/scicomp/anaconda3/bin/python

but clicking the "install autopep8" uses /usr/bin/python. Therefore I have tried to change the pythonpath in settings. Then I get

yolen@yolen-ThinkPad-X260:$ /home/yolen/scicomp/anaconda3/bin/python -m pip install autopep8
Requirement already satisfied: autopep8 in ./scicomp/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: pycodestyle>=2.3 in ./scicomp/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from autopep8)
yolen@yolen-ThinkPad-X260:$

restart and it works it seems

[DonJayamanne]

Awesome

[JensMadsen]

not working again :-(

[DonJayamanne]

Please could you be a bit more specific.

• What's not working?
• What's the error?
• Is there any output in the Python output window and the console window (Help->Toggle Developer tools)

[MikhailArkhipov]

Looks like machine configuration issue, specifically C++ side of things.

lib/python3.6/lib-dynload/_ctypes.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: 
undefined symbol: _PyUnicode_AsWideCharString

This means Python binary is unable to locate PyUnicode_AsWideCharString entry point which most probably some other installation overwrote shared library that is not compatible with this specific Python.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45998875/tensorflow-python-importerror-undefined-symbol-pyunicode-aswidecharstring