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diff --git a/‎src/client/activation/languageClientMiddlewareBase.ts
Lines changed: 5 additions & 4 deletions b/‎src/client/activation/languageClientMiddlewareBase.ts
Lines changed: 5 additions & 4 deletions
diff --git a/‎src/client/interpreter/configuration/pythonPathUpdaterService.ts
Lines changed: 1 addition & 2 deletions b/‎src/client/interpreter/configuration/pythonPathUpdaterService.ts
Lines changed: 1 addition & 2 deletions
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ import {
 import { ConfigurationItem } from 'vscode-languageserver-protocol';
 
 import { HiddenFilePrefix } from '../common/constants';
-import { IConfigurationService } from '../common/types';
 import { createDeferred, isThenable } from '../common/utils/async';
 import { StopWatch } from '../common/utils/stopWatch';
 import { IEnvironmentVariablesProvider } from '../common/variables/types';
+import { IInterpreterService } from '../interpreter/contracts';
 import { IServiceContainer } from '../ioc/types';
 import { EventName } from '../telemetry/constants';
 import { LanguageServerType } from './types';
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ export class LanguageClientMiddlewareBase implements Middleware {
                 return next(params, token);
             }
 
-            const configService = this.serviceContainer.get<IConfigurationService>(IConfigurationService);
+            const interpreterService = this.serviceContainer.get<IInterpreterService>(IInterpreterService);
             const envService = this.serviceContainer.get<IEnvironmentVariablesProvider>(IEnvironmentVariablesProvider);
 
             let settings = next(params, token);
@@ -87,9 +87,10 @@ export class LanguageClientMiddlewareBase implements Middleware {
                     const settingDict: LSPObject & { pythonPath: string; _envPYTHONPATH: string } = settings[
                         i
                     ] as LSPObject & { pythonPath: string; _envPYTHONPATH: string };
-
                     settingDict.pythonPath =
-                        (await this.getPythonPathOverride(uri)) ?? configService.getSettings(uri).pythonPath;
+                        (await this.getPythonPathOverride(uri)) ??
+                        (await interpreterService.getActiveInterpreter(uri))?.path ??
+                        'python';
 
                     const env = await envService.getEnvironmentVariables(uri);
                     const envPYTHONPATH = env.PYTHONPATH;
 
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { inject, injectable } from 'inversify';
-import * as path from 'path';
 import { ConfigurationTarget, l10n, Uri, window } from 'vscode';
 import { StopWatch } from '../../common/utils/stopWatch';
 import { SystemVariables } from '../../common/variables/systemVariables';
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ export class PythonPathUpdaterService implements IPythonPathUpdaterServiceManage
         const pythonPathUpdater = this.getPythonUpdaterService(configTarget, wkspace);
         let failed = false;
         try {
-            await pythonPathUpdater.updatePythonPath(pythonPath ? path.normalize(pythonPath) : undefined);
+            await pythonPathUpdater.updatePythonPath(pythonPath);
         } catch (err) {
             failed = true;
             const reason = err as Error;