Script running from terminal after setting pythonpath and running "thonny&" command, but not when thonny ide is opened directly

Question

I am using a Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit to run a script that will capture an image. I have gone through installing the right packages for libcamera for this OS and can run libcamera apps using my terminal. I get the error: no module named picamera2 whenever I try to run the script in thonny ide.

However, I have set my pythonpath variable to

/home/pi/picamera2:/home/pi/libcamera/build/src/py:/home/pi/kmsxx/build/py:/home/pi/python-v4l2

and when I run the command "thonny&" or "thonny" from my terminal, my script runs without an error

Please, how can I be able to run my scripts without having to go through this process?

Answer 1

thonny is an integrated development environment for Python that is designed for beginners. If you just want to run a python program forget thonny and just run with python!

All my python scripts start with:-

#! /usr/bin/env python3

so they can be run from terminal.

Alternately just run python3 scriptname

Answer 2

You can set an Environment variable in Thonny under (Tools:Options:General), which will persist after a closedown/restart of Thonny.