How to setup working directory in VS Code for pylint?

Question

I have a project with that structure:

├── .git
├── .gitignore
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
└── src

Pylint by default running from project root and I have error on all my imports, because source root in src directory. I try to setup the linter path in settings.json, but then linter don't work

"python.linting.pylintPath": "cd src && pylint"

Question is: how to change the source root for pylint in VS Code? I use this extension https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode

Answer 1

Add this line in your settings.json file (in the .vscode directory).

"python.autoComplete.extraPaths": ["./src"],

Answer 2

You can solve this by creating a .env file in the project root with content:

PYTHONPATH=./src