[FIXED] User-defined module: ModuleNotFoundError error in VSCode but not in PyCharm

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Dear all,

My apologies in advance for such a simple question, but I've spent hours browsing on the Net w/o obtaining a solution. I am newbie to Python and coding, and I am working on a project for my studies. I am using VSCode casue PyCharm is too heavy for my computer.

I have a project with the following structure:

Project
|_ database: __init__.py, connection.py
|_ recipes: __init__.py, recipe_modules.py, recipe_functions.py
|_ (other irrelevant packages)

The package recipe_modules.py has the following statements:

import peewee
import datetime
from database.connection import BaseModel, db

And when running the module I get the following error in VSCode:

Error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'database'

However, when I run the module in PyCharm I do not get any error - meaning the statements are correctly defined and all the rest is OK.

I know is an issue with the configuration of VSCode but I have spent hours w/o being able to fix it .

Btw, my file .vscode/launch.json already has the follwing code:

{
        "env": {
            "PYTHONPATH":"${workspaceFolder}"
            }
{

I am absolutely lost here, and this is killing me. Hopefully you have already faced this.

Thanks in advance for your help!