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.

Python is still something of a novelty in Visual Studio; support for the scripting language was added to Visual Studio 2017 in one of its point releases.

It's no wonder, then, that a presenter at the EuroPython show in Dublin tomorrow will share "why VS Code is now the #1 tool for Python Data Scientists according to the 2021 Python Software Foundation ...

Microsoft has launched a new 44-part series called Python for Beginners on YouTube, consisting of three- to four-minute lessons from two self-described geeks at Microsoft who love programming and ...

Dower said by making Visual Studio's Python IntelliSense portable and cross-platform, the team can improve it for both Visual Studio and VS Code at the same time. The standalone release of the Python ...

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Microsoft plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server. IntelliSense provides autocompletions for variables, functions, and ...