How To Install Python Packages In VS Code

Manpreet Singh
2 min readJul 12, 2022

Hi everyone! VS Code is one of my favorite code editors out there, and Python is one of my favorite programming languages out there, so, let’s take a look at exactly how you can install Python packages in VS Code! First of all, make sure you have the Python extension added within VS Code:

You also want to make sure you have pip installed on your machine as well, if you don’t, check out the link below to install this Python package manager:

If you already installed Python you should already have pip installed. Now is the fun part, let’s make our way over to VS Code. At the bottom of the VS Code panel you should be able to see your Terminal, you also want to make sure it has the Terminal portion selected as well:

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