Microsoft plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server.

Microsoft is making available to Python developers a free, open-source add-on to its Visual Studio suite.

Microsoft has made its Pylance language server the default on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code.

Microsoft announced the Python Language Server, which will allow them to extend their support of Python to tools other than Visual Studio.

New extension pack bundles VS Code extensions for Python language support, Jupyter notebooks, data wrangling, and the GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant.

The three most popular extensions in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace are for Python coding, totaling more than 176 million installs. Leading that list is the main Python tool, accounting for more ...