The January 2021 update to the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is out with a short list of new features headed by a data viewer used while debugging.

If for nothing else, you should use Pillow just to future-proof your code. As with most Python libraries, it can be installed with pip: External Resources The background image for our demonstration.

Pylance is now the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code, providing IntelliSense functionality as of the May 2021 release of the Python Extension for VS Code.