How to hide file paths when running Python scripts in VS Code?

Gino Mempin 2020-04-13 08:38

AFAIK, there is no way to hide the paths, because the VS Code Integrated Terminal is basically using your OS/system's underlying terminal. And running Python scripts on a terminal usually requires:

<path/to/python/interpreter> <path/to/python/file>

If you want a "cleaner" console output, you could create a debug/launch configuration for Python, then set the console configuration to internalConsole:

.vscode/launch.json

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
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    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "run-my-script",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/path/to/your_script.py",
            "console": "internalConsole"
        },
        ...
    ]
}

That would display the output in the Debug Console tab rather than the Terminal tab.
There will be no more paths, just whatever your script prints out to the console.

sample output: