Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

It's powered by Microsoft's static type checking tool ... language support right out of the box with the Python extension (no separate install needed!)," says Ostrowski. Microsoft is ...

When installed, Microsoft’s Python extension also installs support for ... a language server that provides linting and type checking by way of the Pyright tool. Together, these components ...

An attacker who duped a user to open a specially crafted file in VS Code with the Python extension installed could run malware on the machine. Microsoft's advisory says it fixed the issue by ...