Over the past few years, it has exploded in popularity. Thanks to Microsoft’s Python extension for Visual Studio Code, VS Code has also become one of the best tools for working with Python.

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

Once you have installed Python and VS Code IDE, all you need to do is create a Python file. To do that, open Visual Studio Code, go to File > New File, search for Python file, and click on it.

"The Python Interactive experience now comes with a built-in variable explorer along with a data viewer, a highly requested feature from our users," de Melo e Abud said. "Now you can easily view, ...