On Halloween 2018 a developer filed an issue in the GitHub repo for the VS Code Python extension, asking for the ability for users to "spin up multiple 'Python Interactive' windows." In August 2020, ...

Python 3.13 now introduces the so-called free-threaded mode, which works without a global interpreter lock. The mode is marked as experimental, and the description warns that bugs and ...

"Code cells from Python scripts by default will still be executed in a same interactive window. However, you can now configure the Python extension to run separate files in separate interactive ...