Extra quoted path in the PATH environment variable in Python

[netcore-jroger]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

• VS Code Version: 1.56.2
• OS Version: Windows 10 Professional 21H1 19043.985

Steps to Reproduce:

when active Python extension. will show this message:

The environment variable 'Path' seems to have some paths containing the '"' character. 
The existence of such a character is known to have caused the Python extension to not load. 
If the extension fails to load please modify your paths to remove this '"' character.

I checked my environment variable configuration and found no " characters .
Below is the result:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath
H:\apps\Python27\
H:\apps\Python27\Scripts
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\
C:\Program Files\dotnet\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\
H:\apps\Amazon Corretto\jdk15.0.2_7\bin
H:\apps\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin
H:\apps\go\bin
C:\Users\jroger\AppData\Roaming\npm
H:\apps\TortoiseSVN\bin
H:\apps\dotnet-core-uninstall\
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin
C:\ProgramData\DockerDesktop\version-bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DTS\Binn\
H:\apps\mingw64\bin
H:\tools
C:\Program Files\nodejs\
C:\Users\jroger\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
H:\apps\Bandizip\
C:\Users\jroger\.dotnet\tools
C:\Users\jroger\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin
H:\apps\Amazon Corretto\jdk15.0.2_7\bin
H:\apps\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin
H:\apps\go\bin
H:\apps\mingw64\bin
H:\tools
C:\Users\jroger\AppData\Roaming\npm
"d:\rmlis6\common"
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath
H:\apps\Python27\
H:\apps\Python27\Scripts
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\
C:\Program Files\dotnet\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\
H:\apps\Amazon Corretto\jdk15.0.2_7\bin
H:\apps\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin
H:\apps\go\bin
C:\Users\jroger\AppData\Roaming\npm
H:\apps\TortoiseSVN\bin
H:\apps\dotnet-core-uninstall\
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin
C:\ProgramData\DockerDesktop\version-bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DTS\Binn\
H:\apps\mingw64\bin
H:\tools
C:\Program Files\nodejs\

"d:\rmlis6\common" is not in my environment PATH. I'm very sure.
I don’t know where it was read from.

[kimadeline]

What command did you use to display this list of paths? Where did you run it from?

[netcore-jroger]

I used .NET Interactive Notebooks extensions. And run csharp code:

Action<string> log = message => Console.WriteLine(message);
var path = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH");
var pathArray = path.Split(";", StringSplitOptions.None);
foreach( var p in pathArray ){
  log(p);
}

[kimadeline]

What do you get if you try to get environment variables from your terminal directly, for example using the Get-ChildItem -Path Env: command in PowerShell?

What is the output when you open the Python REPL in your terminal and try to get environment variables in Python?

import os

os.environ

[netcore-jroger]

I did not find the problem using powershell, but I did see the problem using python. But it is not configured in my environment variables.

[netcore-jroger]

why?

[netcore-jroger]

[kimadeline]

Moving your question to GitHub discussions since it's Python-related, and not an extension issue.