René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Improve how to surface that an interpreter needs to be selected","articleBody":"## Environment data\r\nVS Code version:  1.19.1\r\nOS and version:  Linux (I'm guessing Windows also has this issue)\r\n\r\n## Actual behavior\r\n- Errors lead me down a road of failure.\r\n\r\n## Expected  behavior\r\n- Errors that lead me down a road of success.\r\n\r\n## Steps to reproduce:  \r\n-  Setup a python 3 dev environment\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nSee https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/266#issuecomment-354580012\r\n\r\nBasically, right now VS Code is unfriendly when dealing with errors setting up a code environment. Even --verbose is not that helpful.\r\n\r\nTo paraphrase the other issue:\r\n\r\n\u003e The UI says Python in the bottom right hand corner and I have everything python working except Code thinks otherwise (errors in this issue).\r\n\u003e \r\n\u003e How am I supposed to know that I need to pick and interpreter when Python is already selected? The system doesn't tell you that. It just throws meaningless errors.\r\n\u003e \r\n\u003e Maybe you can combine or connect the interpreter and language mode features.\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/bbrendon","@type":"Person","name":"bbrendon"},"datePublished":"2017-12-31T22:29:45.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":9},"url":"https://github.com/505/vscode-python/issues/505"}