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Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2023 Release
The December 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include debug configurations add to the Run button menu, show type hierarchy with Pylance, deactivate support for auto-activated terminals, and additional REPL improvements. Keep reading to learn more!
Python Linting in Visual Studio Code – Hinting and Linting Video Series
Power user settings when enabling your Python linter in VS Code. The goal is for your developer experience to be intuitive, replicable, and shareable.
Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2023 Release
The November 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include improvements to Shift+Enter when sending code to the terminal, deprecation of linting and formatting features, improvements to Python linting extensions, reconfiguration of test output, and virtual environment deactivation help. Keep reading to learn more!
Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2023 Release
The October 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include Python debugger extension updates, deprecation of Python 3.7 support, and a recap of Open Source Day. Keep reading to learn more!
Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2023 Release
The September 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include updates to the Create Environment command, a new terminal auto-activation experiment, and a new yapf extension. Keep reading to learn more!
Announcing: Azure Developers – Python Day
Experience cloud computing with Python on Azure during Python Day 2023!
Python in Visual Studio Code – August 2023 Release
The August 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include a pre-configured dev container for the Python extension, a new debug configuration, an npm package for the Python extension API, and error-tolerant pytest discovery with the testing rewrite. Keep reading to learn more!
Package Management in the Python extension for Visual Studio Code
The Python extension in VS Code is investigating ways to improve our package management support and have completed a comparison of support offered by various package management tools.
Python in Visual Studio Code – July 2023 Release
The July 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include an announcement on Python 3.7 support, a new Mypy extension in preview, a Debugpy extension in preview, Pylance localization, and index persistance for 3rd-party libraries with Pylance. Keep reading to learn more!