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.

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.

The Visual Studio Code team is going all in on Python. It hired the developer of the code editor's most popular Python extension, took over the project as its own and is hiring more Python coders to ...

Microsoft has released version 1.100 – of its free source code editor Visual Studio Code, also known as April 2025 – after the development month. The release brings new features for GitHub ...

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