Don't export .env values into the global environment

[pamelafox]

Currently the Python extension exports the .env values into the global environment. That feature caused my days of debugging this year, due to its interaction with the azd CLI (Azure/azure-dev#4384), and I had absolutely no expectation that such a feature would exist. I know that there is a way in settings to turn it off, but I think that it should be an opt-in feature since it can have such a confusing effect on the local environment.

I have not heard of any other language extensions having the same feature, either.

[karthiknadig]

An activated terminal environment is somewhat strange rom general languages perspective. May be we can make the setting more explicit with not defaults, something like: python.terminal.envFile. this way it only works i you set it a .env.

I will need to investigate this further to see i this breaks any expectations of existing users. Surface it better, in cases where it might get missed. Define a clearer overriding order between the various ways you can set environment variables.

[anthonykim1]

Also would be beneficial to explain/define behavior for when changes are made to existing env file (and user has not restarted), when env file suddenly does not exist (file deletion from user), what happens when extension is deactivated (do we store cached env somewhere). Related: #23856

[th0rgall]

Somehow vscode-python seemed to have cached outdated .env values in a JS workspace that doesn't even use Python, and inserted those into every new terminal.

I tried disabling/clearing all VSCode settings related to integrated terminal session restoration (probably unrelated) and Python environment activation (including "python.terminal.envFile": ""), including restarting VSCode and rebooting, all to no avail.

In the end, the only thing that worked was disabling the all the Python language support extensions (ms-python.*) in my Workspace. I hope that solution helps someone in a similar situation. Like this comment mentioned, it would be nice if this Python env cache could be cleared.