Setting up a virtual environment is an important step in creating your development workflow. It allows you to manage the dependencies for each of your projects, and it prevents your Python ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

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 has released an updated version of its hugely popular Python Extension for Visual Studio Code. The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS ...

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Version 1.0 of the new debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), called Debugpy, shows up in the latest update of the popular Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

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 ...