Microsoft also boasts that the Python extension it develops for VS Code now loads 10% faster for Windows and macOS systems, and 20% faster for Linux systems.

Compare the Python programming language and R to see how they differ and which is better for data science.

Python 3.7 has landed in the Microsoft Store. While it appears to be quite functional, there are still a few known issues, some of which have to do with limitations imposed on Microsoft Store apps.

The team also announced a preview of a Python Environments extension, which provides a new way to manage Python environments in VS Code, creating, deleting and switching between environments. Such ...

Syntax highlighting in Python code -- along with other language-specific "smartness" -- is provided in Microsoft's Python extension for VS Code via the Pylance language server, and that's where the ...