Now that we have installed both the IDE and the language, let us go ahead and configure it on your computer. But before we do that, we need to install the Python Extension in VS Code.

Today, macOS doesn’t bundle Python by default, so one has to install Python in some form no matter what. The most common and battle-tested way to do this is through pyenv.

If you’ve installed a major new version of Python—e.g., you already have Python 3.10 and you now install Python 3.11 alongside it—you’ll need to create a new virtual environment that ...

Once you have installed Python and VS Code IDE, all you need to do is create a Python file. To do that, open Visual Studio Code, go to File > New File, search for Python file, and click on it.