Do we need to specify a python interpreter version or any other parameters in the inventory hosts file? I am receiving the following error when executing a playbook ...

Ideally, it would behave just as it does now, but just implicitly sets the python interpreter as the one found without explicitly writing it out to settings.json. As detailed in a May 12 announcement ...

As shown in the attached screenshot, my active terminal is using the base environment (highlighted in the bottom-left corner). I selected base as the project interpreter via Ctrl + Shift + P → Python: ...

The new interpreter will run Python programs as much as 5% faster, with no changes to existing code required. A beta of Python 3.14 is due in May. March 10 update ...