[Python] Launching ipython in vscode

I am currently transitioning from using Jupyter notebooks to .py files, and I want to to able to execute certain lines of code in my program interactively

I know that if I

(1) select the block of code -> right-click -> Run in Interactive Windows -> Run Selection/Line in Interactive Window,

then I can run the code in the kernel that I define (mapping it to conda env, e.g. "my_env").

When I try to do supposedly the same steps:

(2) select the block of code -> shift + enter,

VS Code opens a new interactive window with "Python REPL" kernel.

Is there a way to use the shortcut (2) for running the code in the predefined kernel (i.e. "my_env" kernel)?

I can run things in interactive mode when using the (1), but it doesn't make sense to right-click all the time.

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