Define Python variables in `launch.json` as if using debug console

[brettcannon]

Discussed in #15542

^{Originally posted by sroener March 3, 2021}
Hi,

I want to suggest an option in the launch.json for adding variables at startup, which don't have to be parsed by boilerplate CLI.
The idea comes from the observation that I can add/overwrite variables in a running debug session by using the debug console. Depending on the number of variables, this quickly becomes tedious and time consuming, so I thought it would be nice to have an option to automate this.

I tried to find a method to do this via the launch.json, but it seems that there are only options to either define environment variables (env) or command line arguments (args).

[brettcannon]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 5 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[brettcannon]

Thank you for submitting your feature request and everyone who considered it! Unfortunately this issue did not receive enough votes over the allotted time, and so we are closing the issue.