TEMPORAL WORKAROUND: https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/i45agt/cannot_type_code_into_python_interactive_console/
EDIT: this is a bug in new version of VSCode. There are also a few issues raised on github with the same problem. I will leave the question here, despite that it still gets minus points and got closed twice, as I was not able to find out any answer by googling, maybe it will help someone.
... Asking the same question once again, could you please tell me what details shall I add or how to specify the problem in better way, before you close it again in 10 minutes? I am desperate, can not work and have no one to ask, there is nothing on google with this issue....
So I am using VSCode and an interactive environment. By now everything worked just fine and I am not aware that something changed (I have not installed anything new, nor updated anything, so it might have been done somewhere in the background). Now the problem arises: I am able to run interactive, but only from the script with using cells #%% , however, the interactive window does not allow me to write anything into it directly into Type code here and press shift-enter to run. What is even more strange, yesterday it allowed me to write into this window some code and execute it and then suddenly it stopped working and I had to write code into the script again...
I am using VSCode Version: 1.51.1 and python 3.7.4 64-bit.
I have the same issue - it seems to be a bug in VScode. The only thing that works is simply to close it and open it again, until they fix it - anoying as it is