Mac OSX “python” process running at 100% after opening Visual Studio Code — I managed to solve a really irritating problem recently and I thought I would share the solution. After a recent update I noticed every time I opened Visual Studio Code, the CPU on my iMac should shoot to 100%. I could see with “top” that “python” processes were causing this but nothing was actually running. It turned out to the the Python language server!

The solution to this is to edit the “.vscode/settings.json” file and add this:

{
    "python.languageServer": "None"
}