Visual Studio Code

Some notes on customization of Visual Studio Code.

Terminal Environment

It can be useful to inject additional environment variables into the shell used for development and testing. One such example is to set PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE to avoid generation of .pyc files and __pycache__ folders which can add noise to the working environment, but any environment variable can set (or unset using null) added this way.

WindowsLinuxmacOS

Open %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json and add the following entry:

"terminal.integrated.env.windows": {
    "PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE": "1"
}

Open $HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json and add the following entry:

"terminal.integrated.env.linux": {
    "PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE": "1"
}

Open $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json and add the following entry:

"terminal.integrated.env.osx": {
    "PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE": "1"
}