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”.

Microsoft's open-source Visual Studio Code is growing hand in hand with Python.

Anaconda includes Microsoft's Visual Studio cross-platform code editor in its Python-based data science platform.

Dower said by making Visual Studio's Python IntelliSense portable and cross-platform, the team can improve it for both Visual Studio and VS Code at the same time. The standalone release of the Python ...