How to set the root directory for Visual Studio Co

Question

I have no trouble running and debugging my project with VSCode Python Extension (ms-python.python), but since python sub-project root directory is not the whole project directory, all imports from my sources are underlined with red color and are listed in the problems and so Go to definition and some similar features don't work properly. How can I tell the IDE where's the start point of my project:

Whole Project path:
  docs
  server
    entities
      user.py
      customer.py
  env
  viewer
  db

The server directory is where the imports path are started from:

from entities.user import User

Answer 1

You can create a .env file with:

PYTHONPATH=server

That will add your server folder to PYTHONPATH as needed.

(You may need to restart VSCode for it to take PYTHONPATH into account correctly.)