Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development Click on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window (it looks like four squares). In the search bar, type “Python”.

Known as Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS), the new, free tools are available under the Apache 2.0 license, and available for download from Microsoft's CodePlex site.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

It's no wonder, then, that a presenter at the EuroPython show in Dublin tomorrow will share "why VS Code is now the #1 tool for Python Data Scientists according to the 2021 Python Software Foundation ...

Open Source, Python and Visual Studio Code Top Themes in GitHub Student Survey By Dian Schaffhauser 12/07/20 Fledgling developers were more likely to contribute to open source coding projects this ...