Microsoft is rolling out a new Python Environments extension in VS Code, now reaching 20% of stable channel users. The tool ...

Python packages can be distributed as self-contained .whl files. Installing them is easy: pip install /path/to/file.whl. It’s also not hard to download wheels as files using pip.

The uv utility lets you run Python packages and libraries with one command and no setup. Here's the quick guide to running Python packages without installing them.