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The December 2023 update to Python in Visual Studio Code introduces several new features, including configurable debugging options that are now available on the Run button menu.

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.

Microsoft’s Python language extension for the Visual Studio Code editor has added beta data-science capabilities that support data exploration and incorporation of machine learning models.

The March 2020 update to Microsoft's wildly popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code focused on improving quality via bug fixes, but it did introduce a new debugger.

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

Anaconda includes Microsoft's Visual Studio cross-platform code editor in its Python-based data science platform.

Python is also one of the more popular languages in Visual Studio Code, with additional tools in the Visual Studio Code extensions marketplace.

Microsoft has announced that the August 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available.