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.