The goal is to be able to use my environment setup from Conda/Anaconda within the visual studio code debugger. The default pythonpath configuration does not produce this effect - rather it goes to the system default python path (what you get when you type 'python' in a fresh shell).
How do I configure VS Code to use my Conda environment?
I found a better solution, based on the previous ones:
Go to Workplace Settings.
Override the parameter python.venvPath
with the Path to folder with a list of Virtual Environments. For the case of anaconda:
This setting enables VS Code to recognize the available conda environments
. Thus, we can click on the current python interpreter and switch to others: