Install the package from the terminal using a command similar to the following code, depending on your version: sudo rpm -i ...

Here’s why this matters: If you have a virtual environment configured with your Python project, it’ll activate automatically in a terminal session when you open the VS Code terminal pane.

Open your project file in VS Code, and click on Terminal > New Terminal. Now, run pwd in Terminal to know your path, it should be the path of your project folder.If it’s not, you need to run cd ...

That’s how to run a Python script in terminal or CMD. It’s a very straightforward process, but it’s extremely handy if you ever want to quickly carry out a bespoke task.

Also interestingly, VS Code's ascension to No. 1 in the Python developer survey has come fairly recently. In the 2018 survey, for example, it garnered only 16 percent of respondent votes, sandwiched ...