VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension. It is developed by Microsoft itself, the same ...

'The Python extension walkthrough has been improved to more easily guide users to installing Python when needed, and selecting it in VS Code.' ...

The popular Python for VS Code extension now has almost 15 million installs from Microsoft's VS Code extension marketplace, making it by far the most popular extension distributed on the site.

The Python extension for the open source Visual Studio Code editor -- the most popular offering available in the marketplace -- has been updated with improved debugging functionality.

To install the extension, run the following commands in your terminal or PowerShell window with Python installed. pip install pyxll pip install pyxll-jupyter pyxll install ...

Microsoft has announced that the August 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available.