Required VSCode env variables for RoboCorp

Troubleshooting
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Hello Guys,

I’m trying to migrate an existing API testing project from PyTest to Robot Framework but I find hard to import some of the custom python libraries due to the following error:

Unresolved library: general.py.
Error generating libspec:
Importing library 'general' failed: ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package
Consider adding the needed paths to the "robot.pythonpath" setting
and calling the "Robot Framework: Clear caches and restart"   robotframework

Python libraries which return that error try to import other libraries two levels above them. Let me show similar hierarchy:

project/
    ├── src/
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   ├── folder1/
    │   │   ├── __init__.py
    │   │   ├── test_cases.robot
    │   │   ├── keywords.resource
    │   │   ├── general.py
    │   │   ├── sample.py
    │   ├── folder2/
    │   │   ├── __init__.py
    │   │   ├── file3.py
    │   │   ├── file4.py
    │   ├── folder3/
    │   │   ├── __init__.py
    │   │   ├── file5.py
    │   ├── folder4/
    │   │   ├── __init__.py
    │   │   ├── file6.py
    │   │   ├── file7.py
    │   ├── folder5/
    │   │   ├── __init__.py
    │   │   ├── file8.py
    │   │   ├── file9.py
    ├── .vscode/
    │   ├── settings.json
    ├── venv/

So for example, in keywords.resource file I try to import general.py with “Library general.py” under Settings section and that general.py has imports from folder2 and folder3, e.g. “from …folder2.file3 import get_action, post_action”.

I’m working in a virtual environment called “venv” which return the absolute path of the project if I echo the $PYTHONPATH variable:

% echo $PYTHONPATH
/path/to/project/

In my .vscode/settings.json in the project I have paths to the project and sub-folder:

{
    "robot.pythonpath": [
        "${workspaceFolder}/",
        "${workspaceFolder}/src",
        "${workspaceFolder}/src/folder2"
    ]
}

If I try to import a module within the same folder scrope with no imports inside it - no error is returned by robotframework.

So obviously I’m missing something very fundamental.
Thanks in advance for the help!

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I would highly recommend to look thru our documentation to get started, see:

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