In the regular monthly update to Python tooling for Visual Studio Code, Microsoft announced an improved setup experience for Jupyter notebooks, along with new inlay type hints for the Pylance language ...

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code has simplified the project setup experience for its main extension along with many other improvements in the regular monthly update, this for ...

VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

The improvements are part of the VS Code extension for Python, which is currently the most popular programming language extension on Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace, with 16.2 million installs.