The Python extension for the open source Visual Studio Code editor -- the most popular offering available in the marketplace -- has been updated with improved debugging functionality.

'The Python extension walkthrough has been improved to more easily guide users to installing Python when needed, and selecting it in VS Code.' ...

VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension. It is developed by Microsoft itself, the same ...

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

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Microsoft's separate Jupyter notebooks extension aims to improve support for Python's programming language rivals.

Pylance could benefit a lot of Python developers given that Microsoft's Python extension for VS Code is by far the most popular language extension on Microsoft's marketplace.