I was using pio on vscode for a year but something broke and I don’t understand what. I’m running the ElementaryOS derivative of Ubuntu 20 (focal).
$ which python
/usr/bin/python
$ python --version
Python 3.8.10
$ echo $PATH
/opt/ros/noetic/bin:/home/user/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:
/usr/bin
:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
So it seems my default Python should be 3.6+ compliant, right?
But when I install the pio vscode extension I get this error:
PlatformIO: Can not find working Python 3.6+ Interpreter. Please install the latest Python 3 and restart VSCode.
If I use the “I have Python” button a force it to /usr/bin/python the error persists.
BTW, I did install python3-venv with ‘sudo apt install python3-venv’.
Also, if I try to install via the 'get-platformio.py" I get these errors:
$ python3 get-platformio.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “get-platformio.py”, line 68, in
main()
File “get-platformio.py”, line 60, in main
bootstrap()
File “get-platformio.py”, line 44, in bootstrap
import pioinstaller.
main
File “”, line 259, in load_module
File “/home/user/Development/.piocore-installer-lkj4jp7q/tmp79xn8h_x/pioinstaller.zip/pioinstaller/
main
.py”, line 22, in
File “”, line 259, in load_module
File “/home/user/Development/.piocore-installer-lkj4jp7q/tmp79xn8h_x/pioinstaller.zip/pioinstaller/core.py”, line 28, in
File “”, line 259, in load_module
File “/home/user/Development/.piocore-installer-lkj4jp7q/tmp79xn8h_x/pioinstaller.zip/pioinstaller/home.py”, line 18, in
File “”, line 259, in load_module
File “/home/user/Development/.piocore-installer-lkj4jp7q/tmp79xn8h_x/pioinstaller.zip/requests/
init
.py”, line 45, in
File “”, line 259, in load_module
File “/home/user/Development/.piocore-installer-lkj4jp7q/tmp79xn8h_x/pioinstaller.zip/requests/exceptions.py”, line 11, in
File “”, line 259, in load_module
File “/home/user/Development/.piocore-installer-lkj4jp7q/tmp79xn8h_x/pioinstaller.zip/requests/compat.py”, line 72, in
ImportError: cannot import name ‘JSONDecodeError’ from ‘simplejson’ (unknown location)
Clearly, something is deeply wrong here. Any help is much appreciated.
I’m using platformio on Ubuntu 20.4, it’s been a few months now, and I’ve just come across this problem, it says it didn’t find the python interpreter, however I was already using version 3.8.10 (/usr/bin/python3)
I have already reinstalled the extension and so far I have had no success.
The solution described in the link below worked fine for me, without installing Flathub package, just first updating Python (if necessary), and then the virtual environment of your installed Python.
https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core-installer/issues/1774
