Those efforts continued in the latest regular monthly update for Python in VS Code, dubbed the October 2022 release, which features simplified project setup with a new command.

In the regular monthly update to Python tooling for Visual Studio Code, Microsoft announced an improved setup experience for Jupyter notebooks, along with new inlay type hints for the Pylance language ...

VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension.

The improvements are part of the VS Code extension for Python, which is currently the most popular programming language extension on Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace, with 16.2 million installs.

Microsoft says its new Pylance language server will make Python developers who use VS Code far more productive.