Pylance Missing Imports Poetry Hot Free May 2026

The "Ghost" Imports: Why Pylance Can’t See Your Poetry Packages (And How to Fix It)

You’ve just scaffolded a pristine new project. You ran poetry add fastapi (or pandas, or numpy), the install finished without a hitch, and your pyproject.toml looks beautiful. You open VS Code, type import fastapi, and then you see it.

Practical Fixes

Workaround currently (for users)

1. Select the Poetry venv interpreter:
   poetry env info --path → select ./.venv/bin/python
2. Add to .vscode/settings.json:

   "python.analysis.extraPaths": ["$workspaceFolder/.venv/lib/python3.x/site-packages"]
   

3. Or use poetry shell before launching VS Code.

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