Visual Studio Code: could not find an installed version of pre-commit

Question

I need to run pre-commit tests on my project and so I've downloaded and insalled the following extension for VSCode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MarkLarah.pre-commit-vscode

It says to simply "Type pre-commit run into the VSCode command bar", which gives me the following error after selecting a test: Could not find an installed version of pre-commit

Can anyone advise?

user_4289046 · Answer

The extension pre-commit-vscode looks for pre-commit in following paths as of now:

    venv/bin/pre-commit
    virtualenv_run/bin/pre-commit
    virtualenv/bin/pre-commit

So as long as we can install a binary in those paths, it will work.

Author has a TODO apparently to look for the binary in $PATH. Until then, you got to use the above workaround.