Debugger cannot find project utils module because it is shadowed by unittestadapter.utils

[DavidKleindienst]

Type: Bug

Behaviour

Expected vs. Actual

from utils import xyz
fails with ModuleNotFoundError when running a test in the Debugger. Simply running a test without the debugger works.
This is because the project's utils module is shadowed by the unittestadapter.utils module.

Notably, until yesterday debugging the same tests worked without problems and VSCode has not been updated since yesterday. The only thing I changed was moving my project folder to a different location. Moving it back to the original location did not resolve the issue

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have a module named utils
2. Import it from a test
3. Run the test with the debugger

I've found somebody having the same problem on stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77314758/vscode-python-unittest-discovery-fails-utils-is-not-a-package-sys-path-ord). In their case switching from unittest to pytest caused the issue to disapear. This did not help in my case.

Diagnostic data

• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.10.13
• Type of virtual environment used (e.g. conda, venv, virtualenv, etc.): Conda
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Default

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

ImportError: Failed to import test module: test_forecast_models
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\prognos1123\lib\unittest\loader.py", line 154, in loadTestsFromName
    module = __import__(module_name)
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\tests\test_forecast_models.py", line 13, in <module>
    from helpers import Measurement, PlanningArea
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\helpers\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from helpers.influence_factors import InfluenceFactors, adjust_if_ranges
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\helpers\influence_factors.py", line 17, in <module>
    from helpers.planning_areas import PlanningArea
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\helpers\planning_areas.py", line 12, in <module>
    from db_utils import metadata
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\db_utils\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from db_utils.db_utils import (
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\db_utils\db_utils.py", line 17, in <module>
    from tasklib import Task, TaskStatus
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\tasklib\__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .notification import *
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\tasklib\notification\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .postgres_notification import PgPubSubNotificationFeature
  File "C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python\tasklib\notification\postgres_notification.py", line 9, in <module>
    from utils.os_check import on_windows
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'utils.os_check'; 'utils' is not a package


----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.003s

FAILED (errors=1)
(prognos1123) PS C:\Users\Kleindienst\Documents\GitProjects\tis-prognos-ai\src\PrognosAI.Python> 

User Settings

languageServer: "Pylance"

testing
• pytestArgs: "<placeholder>"
• unittestArgs: "<placeholder>"
• unittestEnabled: true

Extension version: 2023.20.0
VS Code version: Code 1.83.1 (f1b07bd25dfad64b0167beb15359ae573aecd2cc, 2023-10-10T23:48:05.904Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
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Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 59a9855f-53aa-4c85-9467-0b5e31a9f59b
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