Use the Python extension for Visual Studio Code to create, manage, run, and test Python projects easily.

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.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code has smoothed the "getting started" experience for its main extension along with many other improvements in the regular monthly update, this for ...

VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

Microsoft brings lots of new features and improvements to its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

The improvements are part of the VS Code extension for Python, which is currently the most popular programming language extension on Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace, with 16.2 million installs.

How to install VS Code as a snap package If you prefer to install VS Code as a snap package for easy management and self-containment, all you have to do is run the commands below.