Appending library directory to PythonPath causes crash

[pm64]

Environment

• Pythonnet version: 3.0.3
• Python version: 3.11.0 (main, Oct 24 2022, 18:26:48) [MSC v.1933 64 bit (AMD64)]
• Operating System: Windows and Linux
• .NET Runtime: 8.0

Details

The Python my app calls has a number of dependencies. For predictability, I want to bundle the dependencies with my app, rather than obtain them via pip at runtime. I gathered the entire dependency tree, as well as the .py file with the code I plan to directly call, and added it all to my Visual Studio project, using build action "Content" and CopyToOutputDirectory=PreserveNewest for each item.

If I didn't need these dependencies, I would call:

PythonEngine.Initialize();

That works great. But since I do require the dependencies, I append their root folder to PythonPath first:

var libPath = Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "Python", "libs");
PythonEngine.PythonPath = PythonEngine.PythonPath + ";" + libPath;
PythonEngine.Initialize();

Simply appending libPath to PythonPath causes my app to crash on execution of PythonEngine.Initialize();

• If there was a crash, please include the traceback here.

Is there a recommended way to obtain the traceback? The crash causes the app to exit immediately, there is no exception caught by the debugger. I am more than happy to gather any diagnostic info needed.

[iPromKnight]

By no means an expert, in fact been using this for a day lol
BUt this is what I did

private void InitModules()
    {
        using var py = Py.GIL();
        _sys = Py.Import(SysModuleName);

        if (_sys == null)
        {
            _logger.LogError($"Failed to import Python module: {SysModuleName}");
            return;
        }

        _sys.path.append(Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "python"));

        _rtn = Py.Import(RtnModuleName);
        if (_rtn == null)
        {
            _logger.LogError($"Failed to import Python module: {RtnModuleName}");
        }
    }
    ```
    
    Where the packages I have bundled are in a python folder that gets copied to output dir