Microsoft has released a new version of the Python language extension for its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor that breaks out its Jupyter Notebooks functionality into a distinct VS Code ...

As someone who often works with Python scripts, Jupyter Notebook is my favorite tool for making notes during lectures and sharing my painstakingly-written code with my programming friends and rivals.

That's by far the most downloads of any tool in the VS Code Marketplace, which shows two companion extensions ranking in second and third place: Jupyter (40.8 million) and Pylance (33.5 million). The ...