Yep I think you are right. It does seem to be when VScode tries to auto activate it. This github issue had a solution in the form of adding an empty string for

Yep I think you are right. It does seem to be when VScode tries to auto activate it. This github issue had a solution in the form of adding an empty string for a particular option in settings.json [0]. This fixed it for my mac install. I can't remember what I did on windows to fix it. 0. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/4434 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/4434