The Visual Studio Code team is going all in on Python. It hired the developer of the code editor's most popular Python extension, took over the project as its own and is hiring more Python coders to ...

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.

Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development Click on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window (it looks like four squares). In the search bar, type “Python”.