on windows python.condaPath has 2 incompatible usages

[ccossou]

Type: Bug

Hi,
Using Python environments extension, I wanted to configure so that in powershell, the current python environment is automatically activated (powershell is my default terminal in vscode).

Without any configuration, this doesn't work and I get the error:

(base) PS C:\Users\ccossou\PycharmProjects\myenv> C:\Users\ccossou\AppData\Local\miniforge3\Scripts\conda.exe activate base
                                                                                                    
CondaError: Run 'conda init' before 'conda activate'     

To do that, I had to change the value python.condaPath to "conda". This change is taken into account after closing and restarting vscode.

After that, the conda environment is correctly activated, but on the other hand, I can't create a conda environment using the extension, because here, the path to the conda executable is expected (blabla/conda.exe).

Note that I ran "conda init powershell" in my miniforge prompt, and the powershell profile had the conda init info.

Extension version: 0.3.10972238
VS Code version: Code 1.99.0 (4437686ffebaf200fa4a6e6e67f735f3edf24ada, 2025-04-02T21:35:19.530Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Modes:

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