Resolving Pylance Missing Imports in Poetry Environments When working with Poetry in Visual Studio Code, Pylance may fail to resolve imports, resulting in "reportMissingImports" warnings and a loss of IntelliSense. This occurs because Pylance's default search paths do not always automatically align with the virtual environment (venv) managed by Poetry. Primary Cause: Interpreter Mismatch
Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P)..venv or the name of your project followed by the python version (e.g., ./.venv/bin/python or poetry-env).How to get the values:
In your terminal, run: poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true. pylance missing imports poetry hot
workspaceFoldersIf your project structure is complex or uses symlinks, ensure that your workspace folders are correctly configured in VS Code. Open the Command Palette in VS Code (
Troubleshooting checklist
If you don't see it, select "Enter interpreter path..." and paste the result of running poetry env info --path in your terminal, followed by /bin/python (Linux/Mac) or \Scripts\python.exe (Windows). 2. The "Pro" Setup: Keep Virtual Envs Local How to get the values: In your terminal,