The Python extension provides pluggable access points for extensions that extend various feature areas to further improve your Python development experience. These extensions are all optional and ...

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

It intelligently detects a source directory in a pyproject.toml -configured project, so it doesn’t mistakenly chew through Python files in your project’s virtual environment.

The “w+” tells Python that we are writing to a new file. If the file already exists, then that file is overwritten. If the file doesn’t already exist, then it will be created.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the code editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 30.3 million times, making it the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.