Adding a .env file to vscode so it finds our python module
When developing a Python module with VSCode we will face the challenge of importing it within the IDE itself. This problem does not exist on PyCharm, which takes care of setting a proper development environment for us.
In order to make our module discoverable, we must create a .env file at the root of our project and add the environment variables we need to it:
PYTHONPATH=/path/to/project
I am not sure how this is handled by VSCode (would it append it to the PYTHONPATH? Would it overwrite it?)
VSCode is so primitive that if you open the terminal there's a chance the following command gives an empty results:
echo $PYTHONPATH;
while the code may find your module without problems.
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