debugging - Visual Studio Code Python Timeout waiting for debugger connection

Question

I'm running the visual studio code tutorial with Python and am unable to connect to the debugger. Google / SO are coming up empty when I search. Usually I use Anaconda with Jupyter, so I'm connecting Visual Studio Code to the python in my activated 3.6 virtual environment. I tried pip installing ptvsd in my virtual environment, but that did not make a difference in what I am seeing.

I would welcome any suggestions. Screenshots included below. launch.json in the bottom screenshot

Answer 1

Open the launch.json file and add the following configuration:

{
     "name": "Python: Debug Console",
     "type": "python",
     "request": "launch",
     "program": "${file}",
     "console": "internalConsole"
}

When you specify none internalConsole for the console, it will run the debugger in the debugger console instead of running in the internal or external terminal.