The March 2020 update to Microsoft's wildly popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code focused on improving quality via bug fixes, but it did introduce a new debugger.

Version 1.0 of the new debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), called Debugpy, shows up in the latest update of the popular Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

Microsoft is continuing to bang the AI drum with its developer tools, with its latest announcement that VS Code is shipping as part of the Anaconda Python distribution.

While writing code is one thing, being able to share debugging sessions may actually be even more important to many developers. Live Share supports all major languages, including C#, Python, Java ...

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