The terminal process failed to launch: Starting directory does not exist.

[FenryrMKIII]

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.50.0
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): v2020.9.114305
• OS and version: Windows NT x64 10.0.17763
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.9
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | ...): virtualenv
• Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: NA
• Relevant/affected Python-related VS Code extensions and their versions: NA
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Pylance

Expected behaviour

Should execute the script

Actual behaviour

Raise an error that the cwd directory does not exist.

Steps to reproduce:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a structure like this one :

/
   /src
      /myApp
          __init.py__
         run.py

2. in run.py put a very simple Python code :

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print("hello")

2. Create a Python debug configuration to launch the run.py file

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {   
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "name": "Launch",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "cwd": "src",
            "module": "myApp.run", 
            "showLog": true,
            "trace": "verbose",
        }
    ]
}

3. Hit the Start debugging button
4. You shall get the error indicated in the title that the src directory does not exist
5. Weirdly, after executing run.py itself as a script with the default debug configuration of vscode, I then ran again the other debug configuration (the problematic one) and it does not warn me about the src directory not existing. Is this expected behaviour ?

[karthiknadig]

This depends on which directory is open in the terminal. Use absolute path in the debug configuration for cwd. Try with this:

        {   
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "name": "Launch",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}\src",
            "module": "myApp.run", 
            "showLog": true,
            "trace": "verbose",
        }

[karthiknadig]

Closing this since there has been no further discussions on it.