Microsoft is rolling out a new Python Environments extension in VS Code, now reaching 20% of stable channel users. The tool ...

The alternative to Conda style python environments is to use Python's virtual environment approach. There is an environment module on all HPC clusters named: python/3.12.7 that can be used.

You can create a Python virtual environment and have the needed packages placed there. You can have the packages installed into the Python interpreter available systemwide.