The remote code execution bug, tracked as CVE-2020-1192, is exposed when Microsoft's VS Code Python extension loads workspace settings from a file from a notebook, such as Jupyter.

Microsoft's dev team responsible for the Python in Visual Studio Code experience announced that its extension now supports pre-release versions for the latest cutting-edge bits. Those bits used to be ...

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.