Also interestingly, VS Code's ascension to No. 1 in the Python developer survey has come fairly recently. In the 2018 survey, for example, it garnered only 16 percent of respondent votes, sandwiched ...

Luckily being compatible with Python 3 doesn’t mean replacing code wholesale, with it being possible to modify Python 2.6 code onwards to a form that is also compatible with a Python 3 interpreter.

Until now, VS Code had built-in debugging support for JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and so on, while extensions from the VS Code marketplace enabled support for other languages like Python, Go ...

Figure 3. Python in VS Code detects virtual environments automatically and allows you to choose from existing ones, create a new one, or supply a path manually to one.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the code editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 30.3 million times, making it the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.

Microsoft: Try VS Code's new Python, C++ programming language tutorials, Docker updates Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer April 15, 2020 at 4:38 a.m. PT ...