Over the past few years, it has exploded in popularity. Thanks to Microsoft’s Python extension for Visual Studio Code, VS Code has also become one of the best tools for working with Python.

Learn how to download, install and configure Python in VS Code. You will have to in install Visual Studio Code, create a Python file in VS Code, etc.

Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development Click on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window (it looks like four squares). In the search bar, type “Python”.

Now that we have installed both the IDE and the language, let us go ahead and configure it on your computer. But before we do that, we need to install the Python Extension in VS Code.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the code editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 30.3 million times, making it the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.