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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.

New extension pack bundles VS Code extensions for Python language support, Jupyter notebooks, data wrangling, and the GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant.

Microsoft is making available to Python developers a free, open-source add-on to its Visual Studio suite.

Learn More. Anaconda, a distribution of the Python programming language, now includes Visual Studio Code, announced Microsoft and Anaconda, Inc.

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 ...

For the first time, Python has cracked the top three in the TIOBE index of programming language popularity, helping to demonstrate why Microsoft has fully embraced the language in its Visual Studio ...

Microsoft is converting the baked-in Python IntelliSense support in Visual Studio into a standalone product and previewing it in the new update to the VS Code Python extension.