As the year comes to a close, we would like to take time to reflect and celebrate the incredible progress the Python extension for VS Code has made in the past year. Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, we’ve compiled highlights from our year, showcasing top voted requests and countless lines of code written. Keep reading to get an inside look into all things @vscode-python and @vscode-python-debugger wrapped!

Pull Requests and issues

We saw an impressive 604 pull requests merged in 2024, bringing in features such as Django tests, improved environment discovery, the Native REPL, and more! Moreover, our community helped close 894 issues, for both bug fixes and features requests.

We broke down our top addressed issues based on up-votes:

• Feature suggestion: Run Django unittests received 337 up-votes
• Select pyenv environment based on folder .python-version file received 135 up-votes
• Add “just my code” global setting received 34 up-votes
• Bring back Python 3.6 debugging support by breaking debugging out into its own extension received 34 up-votes

Contributors and community

This year, we were thrilled to see contributions from 43 unique contributors: 22 internal contributors and 21 from the community!

We would like to give a special shout-out to our community contributors: @andybbruno, @aydar-kamaltdinov, @baszalmstra, @bersbersbers, @brokoli777, @covracer, @DavidArchibald, @DetachHead, @edgarrmondragon, @flying-sheep, @joar, @LouisGobert, @mnoah1, @nickwarters, @PopoDev, @renan-r-santos, @shanesaravia, @soda92, @T-256, @tomoki, @vishrutss.

The community’s support and collaboration have been invaluable, and we look forward to continuing to find ways to engage and collaborate with you all in 2025!

Codebase changes

This year, we made significant efforts to make our codebase more maintainable by rewriting what we could in Python and cleaning up old code as new code was introduced. As a result, 51,972 lines of code were added, and 48,629 lines of code were removed.

Tools Extensions

Although our repository stats do not account for our tools extensions, we want to highlight the growth and progress in these repositories.

As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance the Python extension, we previously focused on separating linting and formatting tools into their own extensions. This year, we observed substantial growth across all of these extensions.

Black formatter saw an impressive growth of 89.45% and is our most installed tools extension, while autopep8 usage surged by 149.65%. Pylint experienced a notable increase of 70.71%, and flake8 grew by 88.63%. Our mypy type checker topped the download growth chart with an astounding growth of 236.18%.

We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved together this year and can’t wait to continue merging exciting updates in 2025. Thank you for being a part of our community!

Engage with us on our GitHub repositories, @vscode-python and @vscode-python-debugger, and let us know what new features you would like to see next! You can stay up to date on latest releases by following us on X @pythonvscode and on our Python DevBlog.