[Fixed]-Can't debug Django unit tests within Visual Studio Code

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You need to load the django configuration previous to run any test, for that reason the code in __init__.py file.

If pytest is an option for you, you have to install pytest and pytest-django

pip install pytest pytest-django

  1. create a pytest configuration (ex: pytest.ini) at the same level of manage.py file with the following content.

    [pytest]
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mysite.settings
python_files=test*.py

    The configuration DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is the import needed for the project setting (settings.py file). By default, the file tests.py is created for every app when you use python manage.py startapp app_name, but this file doesn’t match with the default pytest file pattern, for that reason you have to add the python_files options if you want to use the default file name.

  2. Update the setting.json configuration file with:

    {
    "python.pythonPath": "venv/bin/python",
    "python.testing.pytestArgs": [
        "mysite",
        "-s",
        "-vv"
    ],
    "python.testing.pytestEnabled": true,
    "python.testing.nosetestsEnabled": false,
    "python.testing.unittestEnabled": false
}

About the error unresolved import 'polls.models', you need to configure the Python extension on VSCode creating a .env file in the root of your project with PYTHONPATH=source_code_folder (for more information VS Code Python Environment):

PYTHONPATH=mysite/

Finally, your project structure should be

.  <-- vs code root
├── .env  <-- file created with the PYTHONPATH entry
└── mysite
    ├── pytest.ini  <-- pytest configuration
    ├── db.sqlite3
    ├── manage.py
    ├── mysite
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   ├── asgi.py
    │   ├── settings.py
    │   ├── urls.py
    │   └── wsgi.py
    └── polls
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── admin.py
        ├── apps.py
        ├── migrations
        ├── models.py
        ├── mydate.py
        ├── tests.py
        ├── urls.py
        └── views.py
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