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No menu for adding WSL python interpreter in PyCharm


I was following this guide from official jetbrains page, until the step 2 comes in the existence.

In the picture mentioned in that page, has so many options like ssh, wsl, vagrant, docker, etc. In my pycharm (latest 2019.3.4) it only shows 4 options - venv, conda, pipenv and system-interpreter.

There is no WSL menu in the add python interpreter dialog.

See the below image:

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Searched web for an hour and found no results that show how to fix it. I started plugin search in the PyCharm if there's an external plugin to do so, but there were no plugin named as WSL.

I don't know how to setup the WSL interpreter, I have python3.8 installed on my wsl right now.

Any help will be appreciated!


Solution

  • I have solved this by

    • Uninstalling pycharm with history and cache.
    • Removing folders completely from C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local and C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains and
    • Clean re-install of pycharm
    • WSL interpreter option shows up as normal
    • Ideavim is creating a conflict I guess.