Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

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”.

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

Get up and running with routes, views, and templates in Python’s most popular web framework.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac includes a preview of a new text editor that's built on the same engine as the one in Visual Studio for Windows, with a native macOS user interface and capabilities.