Powershell Terminal not using correct filepath upon second run

[wheatlythe2nd]

Type: Bug

open file
click run button first time, expected results.
click run button second time, no '&' before file path, or parenthesis around file path, error message is displayed.

VS Code version: Code 1.102.2 (c306e94f98122556ca081f527b466015e1bc37b0, 2025-07-22T12:15:48.520Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700K (20 x 3610)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	31.80GB (20.81GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 00abad4f-05e0-42a0-8b77-61355d3c1e62
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Extensions (7)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
godot-tools	gee	2.5.1
copilot	Git	1.346.0
copilot-chat	Git	0.29.1
debugpy	ms-	2025.10.0
python	ms-	2025.10.1
vscode-pylance	ms-	2025.6.2
vscode-python-envs	ms-	1.0.0

A/B Experiments

vsliv368:30146709
binariesv615:30325510
h48ei257:31000450
nativeloc1:31344060
dwcopilot:31170013
6074i472:31201624
dwoutputs:31242946
hdaa2157:31222309
copilot_t_ci:31333650
e5gg6876:31282496
pythoneinst12:31285622
c7cif404:31314491
pythonpulldiag:31343502
996jf627:31283433
pythonrdcb7:31342333
usemplatestapi:31297334
0aa6g176:31307128
747dc170:31275177
aj953862:31281341
generatesymbolt:31295002
convertfstringf:31295003
pylancequickfixt:31350061
9d2cg352:31346308
usemarketplace:31343026
nesew2to5:31336538
agentclaude:31335814
nes-diff-11:31337487
replacestringexc:31350595
nes-set-on:31340697
testaa123:31335226
6abeh943:31336334
envsactivate1:31353494
yijiwantestdri0626-t:31336930
0927b901:31350571
f76d9909:31348711
0cj2b977:31352657
7ji1b882:31349954

[wheatlythe2nd]

[eleanorjboyd]

Hi! Can you try setting "python.useEnvironmentsExtension" to false in your user settings and see if this makes a difference? It may be connected to to our new extension: microsoft/vscode-python-environments#581.

[wheatlythe2nd]

Set "python.useEnvironmentsExtension" to false and the issue is resolved, Thank you!

[anthonykim1]

@eleanorjboyd It looks like for this issue, the second Python executable does not get wrapped in double quotes nor have preceding &.