Today, we’re excited to announce a new, improved experience for Python library reference documentation on Microsoft Learn, formerly Microsoft Docs. The new experience is now available for all Microsoft Python libraries on Learn, such as the Azure SDK for Python. In this blog post, we take a closer look at the specific changes made and how they improve the overall experience and accessibility of Python reference documentation on Learn. Change Summary The key changes made to Python reference documentation on Learn were improving the navigation experience with the table of contents (TOC), the org ..read more

    We are thrilled to announce Python Data Science Day will be taking place March 14th, 2024; a “PyDay” on Pi Day: 3.14 . If you’re a Python developer, entrepreneur, data scientist, student, or researcher working on projects from hobbyist and start up to enterprise level, you’ll find solutions to modernize your data pipelines and answer complex queries with data. Save the date! During the event, you will hear directly from the experts, community members and Python and Data Science Microsoft MVPs, about the latest in Python Data Science. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced P ..read more

We’re excited to announce the March 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code! This release includes the following announcements: New Add Imports Code Action heuristics setting Automatically start your browser when debugging Django or Flask apps Shell integration for the Python REPL Language support for locally running Jupyter servers If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions. New Add Imports Code Action heuristics setting The Add Import Quick Fix () , triggered when there ..read more

We’re excited to announce the February 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code! This release includes the following announcements: Python debugger extension installed by default Create Environment option in the Python interpreter Quick Pick Jupyter’s built-in variable viewer New diagnostic rules with Pylance VS Code triggered breakpoints with Python If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions. Python Debugger extension installed by default The Python Debugger extension is n ..read more

Over the past six months, we’ve met hundreds of developers that are using Python to build AI chat apps for their own knowledge domains, using the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) approach to send chunks of knowledge to an LLM model along with the user question. We’ve also heard from many developers that they’d like to learn how to build their own RAG chat apps, but they don’t know where to start. So we’re hosting a virtual hackathon to help you learn how to build your own RAG chat app with Python! . From January 29th to February 12th, we’ll host live streams showing you how to build on ou ..read more

We are thrilled to announce Python Data Science Day will be taking place March 14th, 2024; a “PyDay” on Pi Day: 3.14 . If you’re a Python developer, entrepreneur, data scientist, student, or researcher working on projects from hobbyist and start up to enterprise level, you’ll find solutions to modernize your data pipelines and answer complex queries with data. We’re looking forward to your content submission! Submit a session or a lightning talk proposal to join the list of amazing speakers for Data Science Day. The CFP opened January 11th, 2024 and closes January 25th, 2024 AOE (Anywhere on E ..read more

We’re excited to announce the December 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code! This release includes the following announcements: Configurable debugging options added to Run button menu Show Type Hierarchy with Pylance Deactivate command support for automatically activated virtual environments in the terminal Setting to turn REPL Smart Send on/off and a message when it is unsupported If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions. Configurable debugging options added to Run b ..read more

One of the most important parts of writing code is making sure your code is readable. There are so many positive downstream effects of clean code from its ease to maintain and add features, debug subtle programming errors or find uninitialized variables. Some people call this code hygiene. VS Code has linter extension support that enables you develop faster, produce cleaner code and is tweaked to your set up. How VS Code handles Python linters Linters are the development tool that is used to make sure your code is formatted consistently across your team. Then add your linter to your requireme ..read more

We’re excited to announce the November 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code! This release includes the following announcements: Improvements to Shift + Enter run line in terminal Deprecated built-in linting and formatting features Improvements to Python linting extensions Reconfiguration of test output Virtual environment deactivation help Announcing Python in VS Code release videos If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions. Improvements to Shift + Enter run line in te ..read more

We’re excited to announce the October 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code! This release includes the following announcements: Python Debugger extension updates Deprecation of Python 3.7 support Lint on change option for Pylint extension Mypy extension reporting scope and daemon mode Grace Hopper Conference and Open Source Day Participation If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions. Python Debugger extension updates The Debugpy extension, which was announced a few mont ..read more