[Python] Solve Import X could not be resolved in VSCode

Problem

Recently, I have been developing a fastapi project in a virtual environment.

However, when I tried to import modules, I got this error.

Import “X” could not be resolved by Pylance (reportMissingImports)

I found out that this problem was related to a missing additional path where pip had installed the modules that I wanted to import.

Solution

1. First, we need to find the location of the imported module:

    $ python
    >>> import modulename
    >>> print(modulename.__file__)
   

2. Open settings in VSCode.

3. Search pylance.

4. Find the Extra Paths config item.

5. Select add item to add a path to the parent folder of the module.

   • It won’t do any recursive tree searching.