This worked for me:-
in your launch.json profile entry, specify a new entry called “env”, and set PYTHONPATH yourself.
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Python",
"type": "python",
"stopOnEntry": false,
"request": "launch",
"pythonPath": "${config.python.pythonPath}",
"program": "${file}",
"cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
"debugOptions": [
"WaitOnAbnormalExit",
"WaitOnNormalExit",
"RedirectOutput"
],
"env": {
"PYTHONPATH": "/path/a:path/b"
}
}
]