When you open a Python project in VS Code, the Python extension does not activate until you do something specifically Python-related. The most common action in this vein is opening a Python file ...

Even so, the Experimental - Python for the Web (Preview) extension in the VS Code Marketplace has been installed 283 times as of this writing (see screenshot above). The item description lists the ...

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.