Troubleshooting Pylance: Fixing Missing Imports with Poetry in VS Code
Manually selecting the interpreter works until you restart VS Code, share the project with a colleague, or switch branches. The professional solution is to tell VS Code to always use the Poetry interpreter for that folder. pylance missing imports poetry link
Once you have linked the two, you regain the full power of Pylance: Go to Definition, auto-imports, type checking, and refactoring—all while enjoying Poetry’s bulletproof dependency management. Now, delete the old environment and create a
Now, delete the old environment and create a new one: Your code runs perfectly with poetry run python script
If you prefer the traditional .venv folder in your project root (which Pylance automatically detects):
: Even after switching interpreters, Pylance may hold onto stale indices, requiring a manual cache clear. Step-by-Step Solutions 1. Point VS Code to the Poetry Environment
You have a Poetry-managed project. Your code runs perfectly with poetry run python script.py , but (VS Code’s Python language server) underlines imports in red, saying “import could not be resolved” .