Now, getting the latest builds of the super-popular Python extension in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace (nearly 52 million installs) is easier. "For a smoother opt-in and upgrade experience, we're ...

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 26.6 million times, making the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.

Over the past few years, it has exploded in popularity. Thanks to Microsoft’s Python extension for Visual Studio Code, VS Code has also become one of the best tools for working with Python.

The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace, where it's currently the most popular programming language by a long mile.