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Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update?

May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 05/21/19
Steve Dower
Today the Windows team announced the May 2019 Update for Windows 10. In this post we’re going to look at what we, Microsoft's Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows by helping the community publish to the Microsoft Store and, in collaboration with Windows, adding a default “python.exe” command to help find it...

Come visit us at PyCon US 2017!

May 17, 2017 May 17, 2017 05/17/17
Brett Cannon
(image) With PyCon US 2017 happening later this week, we wanted to let you know what we will be up to at the conference! To start, thanks to our platinum sponsorship this year, we are going to have a booth in the exhibit hall. This will provide you a place to come if you have any questions involving Python and Microsoft. We are also going ...

Python support is now stable in Visual Studio 2017

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Steve Dower
Today we have released our next update to Visual Studio 2017, and it's the one you've been waiting for. As of today, the Python development and Data Science and Analytical Applications workloads are stable and ready for production use. You can read our post on the Visual Studio blog for an overview of what is new, and we will release a ...

Python tools in your language

April 17, 2017 Apr 17, 2017 04/17/17
Steve Dower
This week we've released a preview of the next update to Visual Studio. It has all of the improvements that were released recently in VS 2017 Update 1, and also the earliest previews of VS 2017 Update 2. For Python support, probably our most significant update is that we are now available in all fourteen languages that Visual Studio ships ...

Interactive Windows in VS 2017

March 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 03/22/17
Steve Dower
Last week we announced that the Python development workload is available now in Visual Studio Preview, and briefly covered some of the new improvements in Visual Studio 2017. In this post, we are going to go into more depth on the improvements for the Python Interactive Window. These are currently available in Visual Studio Preview, and ...

Released: Python support in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Steve Dower
Today is launch day for Visual Studio 2017, and you can see all the info and join the live event at launch.visualstudio.com. But over in this corner of our world, we are announcing something special. As you likely know, once software is officially released, it normally gets less frequent updates. For those of us who love getting new toys, ...