Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

Once you have installed Python and VS Code IDE, all you need to do is create a Python file. To do that, open Visual Studio Code, go to File > New File, search for Python file, and click on it.

Microsoft says its new Pylance language server will make Python developers who use VS Code far more productive.

Microsoft updates its Python extension for VS Code with fixes for two security flaws and easier interpreter selection.