^{Originally posted by JohnSpeno July 22, 2021}
In the microsoft-python discord, I asked:

Is there a way to have the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable set for the built-in test discovery/runner? I set it up for debugging + debugging tests via launch.json but that isn't integrated with the testing UI which is what I hope to use. This is on macOS 11.4 (big sur) with vscode Version: 1.58.2 and all extensions up to date. Thanks. Note: launching using code . in a shell with the env set properly apparently doesn't propagate DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH as a macOS safety feature these days.

And Brett Cannon said:

There currently isn't, but if you could open a feature request at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python that would be appreciated!

so I am doing that.

I find getting environmental variables set for various parts of VS Code to be difficult currently. I can work around that by running code . in my pre-configured shell environment to launch vscode on my project and it mostly works. The DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH might be a special case due to hardened runtimes on macOS but I'm not exactly sure.

Thanks.