VSCode is showing the inline comments and quotes from my .env file when importing environment variables and I can’t figure out why. It does not happen if I run the script from terminal, only within VSCode -> Run. Also

dotenv is quite forgiving per the docs:

Values can be unquoted, single- or double-quoted. Spaces before and after keys, equal signs, and values are ignored. Values can be followed by a comment.

Here’s my .env:

TEST='abc'
TEST2="def"
TEST3='ghi' # comment 1
TEST4="hig" # comment 2

Here’s the file test_dotenv.py:

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()
print("-=-START")
print(os.getenv('TEST'))
print(os.getenv('TEST2'))
print(os.getenv('TEST3'))
print(os.getenv('TEST4'))

In terminal, it runs as expected:
python ./tests/component/test_dotenv.py

In VSCode, it doesn’t: