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.

Among 59 enhancements and bug fixes, Microsoft brings Jupyter improvements to the Python extension for Visual Studio Code and also has something for Java developers.

According to Microsoft, the newly added Python support will extend those features. The programming language can be used to create more advanced data science workflows than those that Excel ...

Microsoft is introducing the ability to use Python code directly in Excel spreadsheets. It's called Python in Excel, and it's being made available as a Public Preview for Microsoft 365 Insiders ...

Deciding to learn a programming language is one thing, but if you having trouble deciding where to get started, Microsoft has a new 44-part video series that aims to teach beginners Python.

The cumbersome process of using Python code in Microsoft Excel data-driven projects will soon be eased by the company's new "Python in Excel" initiative, currently in public preview. Integrating the ...

Microsoft has introduced a YouTube video series called Python for Beginners that aims to teach aspiring programmers the fundamentals of the Python programming language.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Some members of the Microsoft 365 Insiders program can now try out the combination of Python, Excel and the Anaconda Python repository.

Microsoft has partnered with programming language repository provider, Anaconda, to allow Python code to run in Excel without any additional setup.

Microsoft is using Python to experiment with a new way of installing and deploying Windows features, using the Microsoft Store as a host.