Learn how to install and set up Visual Studio Code for Python development with this easy step-by-step guide. Perfect for beginners and seasoned developers!

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

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Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page highlighting the latest features, changes, tutorials and more.

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

Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

However, Python 3.5 added a new feature called 'asyncio', which, when used correctly, can be excellent for writing efficient IO-bound code.