Python path in VS Code on Linux

Question

So, this has been covered a number of times already, and there's some good documentation on how things are supposed to work here . Except: nothing seems to work for me, How do I debug this? what am I missing: I've tried the following things:

• set PYTHONPATH in .env in the root of my workspace
• add "python.envFile": ".env" to .vscode/settings.json
• move .env to .vscode/env , update python.envFile to reflect
• remove all the env business, add python.autoComplete.extraPaths to .vscode/settings.json
• use a workspace config with a settings key, repeat the steps above
• just give in and run PYTHONPATH=directory code.

All of the above is completely ignored, pylint keeps on complaining. I am getting a bit frustrated. What am I missing here!

Answer 1

Right, cause found. Even outside of VS Code pylint was acting up. Source of the problem: the top-level dir also contained an __init__.py file, messing up all sorts of things. Remove that file and it starts working...