You’ve just scaffolded a pristine new project. You ran poetry add fastapi (or pandas, or numpy), the install finished without a hitch, and your pyproject.toml looks beautiful. You open VS Code, type import fastapi , and then you see it.
Look closely at the error message. If it says "missing type stubs" , the import itself is working.
For more granular control, especially if you have a non-standard project layout (like a src folder, a tools directory, or a monorepo), you should create a .vscode/settings.json file in your project's root. This file's settings will apply only to this workspace. pylance missing imports poetry hot
Since Pylance is built on Pyright, you can configure its behavior directly in your pyproject.toml file. This is a clean, project-specific way to manage settings.
Paste the absolute path to your Poetry virtualenvs folder into this field. You’ve just scaffolded a pristine new project
Sometimes Pylance caches old errors and needs a quick reset to recognize the new environment settings.
If you are developing a local package and using poetry install , you might still see errors because Pylance sometimes struggles with "editable" installs ( pip install -e . ). Look closely at the error message
To find your Poetry environment path, run poetry env info --path in your terminal.
Sometimes the environment exists, but the internal structure Pylance needs is missing.
The "Pylance missing imports" error when using Poetry is a common configuration issue in Visual Studio Code. It typically occurs because Pylance is looking at a different Python environment than the one where Poetry has installed your dependencies. Core Solution: Select the Correct Interpreter
Pylance occasionally caches old, broken environment states. You can force a complete re-index: Open the Command Palette ( Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P ). Run the command. Check for Missing Type Stubs