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The environment variable 'Path' seems to have some paths containing the '"' character. The existence of such a character is known to have caused the Python extension to not load. If the extension fails to load please modify your paths to remove this '"' character.

Source: Python (Extension)

How can I resolve the error? Also, there are no " in the path variable

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    Can you print the PATH variable? Perhaps echo %PATH% on the command line and print(os.environ["PATH"]) in the python extension? Commented Aug 10, 2020 at 18:43
  • check all python folders or best fast solution is to uninstall, reinstall python first, and uninstall, reinstall vs code but carefully follow all requested tasks and recommended on-screen installation instructions. Commented Aug 10, 2020 at 19:37
  • @Shivam Sareen As tdelaney said, when we install other things similar to'node', there will be a situation where a semicolon is automatically generated, resulting in a connection, for example:'%NODE_HOME%\;%NODE_PATH%\'. Solution: Delete the semicolons and write them on two lines separately. Commented Aug 11, 2020 at 9:53

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[WINDOWS 10] I fixed the exact same problem a few minutes back. I had an Environment variable as shown below

%PYTHON_HOME%\;%PYTHON_HOME%\Scripts\

Steps to fix :

  1. The above value should be split into 2 values
  2. Remove ;
  3. Remove the trailing \from other python env variables

The values would look like:

%PYTHON_HOME%

%PYTHON_HOME%\Scripts

This fixed the issue for me.

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