How to get rid of repetitive 'Modify Setup' pop-ups when using Jupyter notebooks in VS Code?
Lately, I’ve been running some Jupyter notebooks in VS Code, and I’ve been encountering a strange issue: whenever I open such a file, I am bombarded with pop-ups that look like this:

Sometimes a few will pop up; other times it can be upwards of 10 pop-ups. What’s bizarre about this is that I already have my VS Code set up properly, and I can run my Jupyter notebooks just fine. I’ve tried selecting the ‘Modify’ option and going with the default selections just to make it go away, but no dice. How do I prevent these annoying pop-ups?
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Python Modify Setup is opened when starting VS Code #10975
Python Modify Setup is opened when starting VS Code #10975
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Issue Type: Bug
When starting VSCode, Python extention loading starts. Shortly afterwards, Python Modify/Repair/Unintall pops up. This is uncalled for. Please disable it.
VS Code version: Code 1.43.2 (0ba0ca52957102ca3527cf479571617f0de6ed50, 2020-03-24T07:38:38.248Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
settings.json doesnt contain the Python Path, but empty brackets:
Running the Python executable opens the Python Conlose, but doesn’t trigger the setup window.
@pypelyne, please provide the contents of your workspace settings.json. Also, what is the Python executable you are using?
There’s a lot of different settings.json Files. Which one do you mean? How do I access it?
I’m using the Python executable of Python 3.7.7 in %Appdata%/Roaming/.
In your workspace root directory look for the .vscode directory. In there you will find your workspace settings.json. You can also access it by typing <ctrl>-, in VS Code, clikcing on «Workspace», and then clicking on the «Open Settings (JSON)» icon in the top-right corner.
In .vscode of the working directory, there is:
@pypelyne, what happens when you run » %Appdata%\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37\\python.exe» manually? Also, please provide the content of your «Python» output panel. Thanks!
Running Python.exe manually opens the default Python Console. Do you need a screenshot?
Python Output Panel content is attached
output_panel.txt
@pypelyne, thanks for that info. I don’t see anything out of the ordinary in those logs. In your original message you said «Python Modify/Repair/Unintall pops up». Was that a notification box in the bottom right corner of VS Code? Is so, it should indicate the source of the message. If it came from the Python extension then it will say so. Please indicate what is said.
Also, in your original message it says you have 2 «python» extensions installed. This may be a source of problems. Do you have the problem if you disable the other extension («python | tht | 0.2.3»)?
DIsabling the other extention didn’t make any difference.
The notification box is the same that pops up when you try to uninstall python. It does not appear inside visual studio, but it is a sperate window.
Modify setup python что делать
Python Modify Setup is opened when starting VS Code #10975
When starting VSCode, Python extention loading starts. Shortly afterwards, Python Modify/Repair/Unintall pops up. This is uncalled for. Please disable it.
VS Code version: Code 1.43.2 (0ba0ca52957102ca3527cf479571617f0de6ed50, 2020-03-24T07:38:38.248Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
settings.json doesnt contain the Python Path, but empty brackets:
Running the Python executable opens the Python Conlose, but doesn’t trigger the setup window.
@pypelyne, please provide the contents of your workspace settings.json. Also, what is the Python executable you are using?
There’s a lot of different settings.json Files. Which one do you mean? How do I access it?
I’m using the Python executable of Python 3.7.7 in %Appdata%/Roaming/.
In your workspace root directory look for the .vscode directory. In there you will find your workspace settings.json. You can also access it by typing <ctrl>-, in VS Code, clikcing on «Workspace», and then clicking on the «Open Settings (JSON)» icon in the top-right corner.
In .vscode of the working directory, there is:
@pypelyne, what happens when you run » %Appdata%\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37\\python.exe» manually? Also, please provide the content of your «Python» output panel. Thanks!
Running Python.exe manually opens the default Python Console. Do you need a screenshot?
Python Output Panel content is attached
output_panel.txt
@pypelyne, thanks for that info. I don’t see anything out of the ordinary in those logs. In your original message you said «Python Modify/Repair/Unintall pops up». Was that a notification box in the bottom right corner of VS Code? Is so, it should indicate the source of the message. If it came from the Python extension then it will say so. Please indicate what is said.
Also, in your original message it says you have 2 «python» extensions installed. This may be a source of problems. Do you have the problem if you disable the other extension («python | tht | 0.2.3»)?
DIsabling the other extention didn’t make any difference.
The notification box is the same that pops up when you try to uninstall python. It does not appear inside visual studio, but it is a sperate window.
How to add Python to the PATH in Windows?
In today’s tutorial we’ll learn how to to insert Python into the path environment variable on Windows.
What is the Windows Path environment variable?
The path is an environment variable in the Windows operating system that points to certain directories that contain specific executable files that we often use. Directories that we typically find in a Windows path are C:\Windows, C:\Windows\system32, %JAVA_HOME%\bin etc’.
Why do we want Python in the Path and should we add it?
We want Python to be set as part of the Path so we can refer to the python.exe or to utilities that are part of the Python installation in a relative manner instead of having to write the full absolute path to the executable. In plain words, the meaning of having Python (or any other executable file) in the path, is that in order to invoke Python, we would rather type python than c:\Users\dave\python3.10\python.exe in our Windows command line.
Python Windows path error messages
We typically encounter error messages when trying to run the Python interpreter from the Windows command line prompt or using the Terminal tab in the popular Python Integrated development environment. Here are a few common errors:
‘python’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

python : The term ‘python’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Error in PyCharm:

‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Same error, but this time when invoking pip. Similar error appear when invoking ipython, Mini conda / Anaconda etc’.
Similar Error in Visual Studio Code (VS) Terminal:

Adding Python to the Path automatically
The easiest way to ensure that Python is incorporated into the Path is set that accordingly when installing Python on your Windows computer. That said, even after you have already installed Python you can still use the Python installer to fix the path topic in two ways.
- First off, close any open Python files or the command prompt terminal windows.
- Then run the Python application setup executable file that matches the one installed in your computer.
- You’ll see the following dialog:
- Then select Modify, then hit Next.
- In the Advanced Options dialog mark the add Python to ENVIRONMENT variables checkbox as shown below. Then hit Install and and once done close the Setup dialog.
- Alternatively, run the Python executable file that matches the one installed in your computer.
- From the Modify Setup dialog, select Repair.
- If prompted by User Account Control hit Yes.
- The Repair Progress dialog will show the Python installation repair.
- Once done, hit Close.
The Python application and scripts folder were added to the Path.
Add Python to Path – manually
You can obviously edit your PATH environment manually .Kindly proceed as following to insert the Python directories to the path:
- On your Windows taskbar hit the magnifying glass button (search).
- In the Type here to search box, type Environment variables and hit Enter.
- The System Properties dialog will open up.
- In the bottom hit the Environment Variables button.
- In the System Variables section, highlight the Path entry.
- Hit Edit.
- Now, hit New.
- Add the absolute path to your Python.exe file. For example: C:\Python\Python3.10
- Now hit New again.
- Add the absolute path to your Python Scripts library.For example: C:\Python\Python3.10\Scripts
- Your dialog should look as following:
- Hit OK.
- Close the Environment Variables and System Properties dialogs.
- Restart your Python IDE or Command Prompt and invoke your Python application using the relative path as shown below:
- You are all set!
Adding PIP to the Path
The Python Package Manager utility PIP is accessible as an executable (exe) file right in your Python Scripts folder typically at <python_installation_directory>\Scripts.
If you path is not set correctly you will get the following error when trying to install a package or to update PIP:

You can easily solve the error by manually setting the Windows path or re-installing Python as shown in the sections above.
SOLVED Python 3.6 wont run .py programs
If you open an Administrator Command Prompt console and type echo %path% then press Enter key do you see C:\Program Files\Python 3.6 listed among your PATH variables or the 2.0 version?
That may be what is going on here.
The installer for Python ought to have a box you need to check that sets the PATH variable as it installs. Have you checked that box during installation?
By way of an experiment you could set the PATH and PYTHONPATH temporarily then run Python from the command console which will then inherit these new settings to test whether it works.
Configure Python
See also the Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt in the Python source distribution.
3.1.1. General Options
Support loadable extensions in the _sqlite extension module (default is no).
New in version 3.6.
Disable IPv6 support (enabled by default if supported), see the socket module.
Define the size in bits of Python int digits: 15 or 30 bits.
By default, the digit size is 30.
Define the PYLONG_BITS_IN_DIGIT to 15 or 30 .
Compile the Python main() function and link Python executable with C++ compiler: $CXX , or COMPILER if specified.
Set the Python executable suffix to SUFFIX.
The default suffix is .exe on Windows and macOS ( python.exe executable), .js on Emscripten node, .html on Emscripten browser, .wasm on WASI, and an empty string on other platforms ( python executable).
Changed in version 3.11: The default suffix on WASM platform is one of .js , .html or .wasm .
Select the default time zone search path for zoneinfo.TZPATH . See the Compile-time configuration of the zoneinfo module.
See os.pathsep path separator.
New in version 3.9.
Build the _decimal extension module using a thread-local context rather than a coroutine-local context (default), see the decimal module.
New in version 3.9.
Override order to check db backends for the dbm module
A valid value is a colon ( : ) separated string with the backend names:
- ndbm ;
- gdbm ;
- bdb .
Disable C locale coercion to a UTF-8 based locale (enabled by default).
Don’t define the PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE macro.
Python library directory name (default is lib ).
Fedora and SuSE use lib64 on 64-bit platforms.
New in version 3.9.
Directory of wheel packages used by the ensurepip module (none by default).
Some Linux distribution packaging policies recommend against bundling dependencies. For example, Fedora installs wheel packages in the /usr/share/python-wheels/ directory and don’t install the ensurepip._bundled package.
New in version 3.10.
Whether configure should use pkg-config to detect build dependencies.
- check (default): pkg-config is optional
- yes : pkg-config is mandatory
- no : configure does not use pkg-config even when present
New in version 3.11.
Turn on internal statistics gathering.
The statistics will be dumped to a arbitrary (probably unique) file in /tmp/py_stats/ , or C:\temp\py_stats\ on Windows.
Use Tools/scripts/summarize_stats.py to read the stats.
New in version 3.11.
3.1.2. WebAssembly Options
Set build flavor for wasm32-emscripten .
- browser (default): preload minimal stdlib, default MEMFS.
- node : NODERAWFS and pthread support.
New in version 3.11.
Turn on dynamic linking support for WASM.
Dynamic linking enables dlopen . File size of the executable increases due to limited dead code elimination and additional features.
New in version 3.11.
Turn on pthreads support for WASM.
New in version 3.11.
3.1.3. Install Options
Don’t build nor install test modules, like the test package or the _testcapi extension module (built and installed by default).
New in version 3.10.
Select the ensurepip command run on Python installation:
- upgrade (default): run python -m ensurepip —altinstall —upgrade command.
- install : run python -m ensurepip —altinstall command;
- no : don’t run ensurepip;
New in version 3.6.
3.1.4. Performance options
Configuring Python using —enable-optimizations —with-lto (PGO + LTO) is recommended for best performance.
Enable Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) using PROFILE_TASK (disabled by default).
The C compiler Clang requires llvm-profdata program for PGO. On macOS, GCC also requires it: GCC is just an alias to Clang on macOS.
Disable also semantic interposition in libpython if —enable-shared and GCC is used: add -fno-semantic-interposition to the compiler and linker flags.
New in version 3.6.
Changed in version 3.10: Use -fno-semantic-interposition on GCC.
Environment variable used in the Makefile: Python command line arguments for the PGO generation task.
Default: -m test —pgo —timeout=$(TESTTIMEOUT) .
New in version 3.8.
Enable Link Time Optimization (LTO) in any build (disabled by default).
The C compiler Clang requires llvm-ar for LTO ( ar on macOS), as well as an LTO-aware linker ( ld.gold or lld ).
New in version 3.6.
New in version 3.11: To use ThinLTO feature, use —with-lto=thin on Clang.
Enable computed gotos in evaluation loop (enabled by default on supported compilers).
Disable the specialized Python memory allocator pymalloc (enabled by default).
See also PYTHONMALLOC environment variable.
Disable static documentation strings to reduce the memory footprint (enabled by default). Documentation strings defined in Python are not affected.
Don’t define the WITH_DOC_STRINGS macro.
See the PyDoc_STRVAR() macro.
Enable C-level code profiling with gprof (disabled by default).
3.1.5. Python Debug Build
A debug build is Python built with the —with-pydebug configure option.
Effects of a debug build:
- Display all warnings by default: the list of default warning filters is empty in the warnings module.
- Add d to sys.abiflags .
- Add sys.gettotalrefcount() function.
- Add -X showrefcount command line option.
- Add PYTHONTHREADDEBUG environment variable.
- Add support for the __lltrace__ variable: enable low-level tracing in the bytecode evaluation loop if the variable is defined.
- Install debug hooks on memory allocators to detect buffer overflow and other memory errors.
- Define Py_DEBUG and Py_REF_DEBUG macros.
Add runtime checks: code surrounded by #ifdef Py_DEBUG and #endif . Enable assert(. ) and _PyObject_ASSERT(. ) assertions: don’t set the NDEBUG macro (see also the —with-assertions configure option). Main runtime checks:
- Add sanity checks on the function arguments.
- Unicode and int objects are created with their memory filled with a pattern to detect usage of uninitialized objects.
- Ensure that functions which can clear or replace the current exception are not called with an exception raised.
- Check that deallocator functions don’t change the current exception.
- The garbage collector ( gc.collect() function) runs some basic checks on objects consistency.
- The Py_SAFE_DOWNCAST() macro checks for integer underflow and overflow when downcasting from wide types to narrow types.
See also the Python Development Mode and the —with-trace-refs configure option.
Changed in version 3.8: Release builds and debug builds are now ABI compatible: defining the Py_DEBUG macro no longer implies the Py_TRACE_REFS macro (see the —with-trace-refs option), which introduces the only ABI incompatibility.
3.1.6. Debug options
Build Python in debug mode: define the Py_DEBUG macro (disabled by default).
Enable tracing references for debugging purpose (disabled by default).
- Define the Py_TRACE_REFS macro.
- Add sys.getobjects() function.
- Add PYTHONDUMPREFS environment variable.
This build is not ABI compatible with release build (default build) or debug build ( Py_DEBUG and Py_REF_DEBUG macros).
New in version 3.8.
Build with C assertions enabled (default is no): assert(. ); and _PyObject_ASSERT(. ); .
If set, the NDEBUG macro is not defined in the OPT compiler variable.
See also the —with-pydebug option (debug build) which also enables assertions.
New in version 3.6.
Enable Valgrind support (default is no).
Enable DTrace support (default is no).
New in version 3.6.
Enable AddressSanitizer memory error detector, asan (default is no).
New in version 3.6.
Enable MemorySanitizer allocation error detector, msan (default is no).
New in version 3.6.
Enable UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer undefined behaviour detector, ubsan (default is no).
New in version 3.6.
3.1.7. Linker options
Enable building a shared Python library: libpython (default is no).
Do not build libpythonMAJOR.MINOR.a and do not install python.o (built and enabled by default).
New in version 3.10.
3.1.8. Libraries options
Link against additional libraries (default is no).
Build the pyexpat module using an installed expat library (default is no).
Build the _ctypes extension module using an installed ffi library, see the ctypes module (default is system-dependent).
Build the _decimal extension module using an installed mpdec library, see the decimal module (default is no).
New in version 3.3.
Use editline library for backend of the readline module.
Define the WITH_EDITLINE macro.
New in version 3.10.
Don’t build the readline module (built by default).
Don’t define the HAVE_LIBREADLINE macro.
New in version 3.10.
Override libm math library to STRING (default is system-dependent).
Override libc C library to STRING (default is system-dependent).
Fix: pip is not recognized as an internal or external command
In this guide, we will show you the steps to fix the ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command error. While I am usually not into the coding domain, but as of late quite a lot of Android tweaks are asking for Python. For example, some OEMs ships their firmware in a payload.bin file [READ: How to Extract payload.bin and get stock boot image file] or others in OZIP format [READ: How to Extract OZIP Realme Stock ROM (Firmware)]. These file-types couldn’t be extracted normally via the WinZip or WinRAR tools. For this, we need a decrypt batch tool and of course Python.
Apart from that, there has been a new tool in town for Samsung devices that is able to directly download the official OTA from the Samsung servers. For the unawares, the South Korean OEM doesn’t have any site where it officially uploads their firmware, so users are left with no choice but to take these unofficial tools (most of which are open source and their complete source code is right there on the GitHub repository). So all these types of tasks required Python and a few other tools.
But unfortunately, due to the initial lack of knowledge about the Python, I always messed up a few steps and ended up with the ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command error. But not anymore. I did extensive research on this topic and found out the right fix for this issue. Do keep in mind that although the fix is just one, there are many different ways of achieving the said tasks. With that said, here are the five different methods to fix the aforementioned error. Follow along.
Table of Contents
How to Fix ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command
Given below are five different types of fixes. The first one will make use of the setx command which the first time users might find a little bit hard to digest. In the next method, I have incorporated a little bit of GUI for the ease of executing the steps. The third one is the manual approach of rectifying thus issues. Then in the fourth method, we will show you how to have shared a handy tip as well that deserves your attention. Finally, the fifth and final approach calls for the re-installation of Python, but with a twist!
With that said, I have personally tried the first three, and the fifth method and managed to fix out the ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command error. Personally, I have tried my level best to explain in a detailed manner as possible. Furthermore, I have also added screenshots of near about every step. This shall help our readers in their quest to fix this issue. Without further ado, let’s get on with the guide.
FIX 1: Adding the Path via setx Command
- The first fix calls you to add the path of your pip installation to your PATH system variable. By default, PIP is installed to
FIX 2: Adding the Path via GUI
If the above fix was too much to digest, then here I am presenting that above section in a slightly more generalized form. In this section, we will again show you the steps to Add Python to environment variables but would be taking the route that involves a user interface (and not any set of commands as such). Here are the steps in this regard to fix the ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command:
- Use the Windows+R shortcut key combinations to launch the Run dialog box.
- Type in appwiz.cpl and hit Enter. This will launch the Programs and Features page.

- Scroll to the Python application, right-click on it, and select Change.

- Then select the Modify option.

- Tick mark the pip option and click Next. Follow the on-screen instructions to install it.

With this, you have successfully added Python to the Environment variables using a handy graphical user interface. This in turn will fix the ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command error.
FIX 3: Manually Adding the Path to the Environment Variables
In this section, we will be manually adding the location of the downloaded Python to the Environment Variables. Here are the required steps for the same:
-
Launch the File Explorer on your PC and double-check that the following directory exists (just replace the username with your name and the Python version accordingly):
With this, you have dealt with the ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command error. Here is the fourth and final thing that we would like to draw your attention to.
FIX 4: Use the py -m command
- Let’s say you have the pip and py installed, but you don’t want to add the PATH as explained above.
- In that case, to execute pip as your command then you can do that using the py -m as a prefix. In that regard, you could take this as the syntax:
- For example:
FIX 5: The Nuclear Approach (via Python Setup)
If none of the above methods managed to fix up your issues, then this last method will definitely do the job for you. In this, we will be uninstalling python from your PC and then re-installing. But in between that, we would explicitly instruct Python to add the PIP installation to your PATH system variable. It will do so and then install Python on your PC. And this should fix the ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command error as well. here are the required steps for the same:
- Go to the Programs and Features page. There are many approaches for that, the easiest of which is to execute the appwiz.cpl command in the Run window (launch it via Windows+R shortcut).
- Once you reach there, select Python, right-click on it, and select Uninstall. Follow the on-screen instructions to completely remove this application from your PC.
- Once that is done, download Python from its official website.

- Launch the Python EXE file to bring up the installation menu.
- In the first menu that appears, tick-mark Add Python <version> to PATH and click on Customize Installation.

- Now select both the PIP and PY launcher option and hit Next.

- Browse to the location where you want to install Python or leave it as it is for the default installation directory (recommended).
- Finally, hit the Install button and wait for the process to complete. Once that is done, your stands would be rectified. You could launch CMD as an Admin and execute the below command to verify the same:
That’s it. These were the different approaches towards fixing the ‘pip’ is not recognized as an internal or external command error. As I have stated initially, I have recently started with Python, hence if you find any errors in my above explanation, do let me know in the comments. Likewise, if you have any queries concerning the above steps, let me know in the comments. I will try my best to address and respond to all your queries. Peace!
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