Change default active interpreter to point to the python in current path

[brettcannon]

Discussed in #16506

^{Originally posted by brettcannon June 16, 2021}
As a notice user I test & run Python (& or Jupyter) with python thats in my current path.
However when using Python or Jupyter notebooks a different Python interpreter is used hence:
In Jupyter extension

• I get prompted to install ipykernel (no idea what this is, i'll click ok)
• After running a cell, i get module not found errors

Suggestion:
Change the active interpreter in the Python extnsion to point to what's in the current path.

Related issue in Jupyter is here microsoft/vscode-jupyter#5998
(We could either change Jupyter extension to use Python in path or optionally make this change in Python exension)

Originally posted by @DonJayamanne in a discussion

[brettcannon]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 5 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[brettcannon]

Thank you for submitting your feature request and everyone who considered it! Unfortunately this issue did not receive enough votes over the allotted time, and so we are closing the issue.