Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development Click on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window (it looks like four squares). In the search bar, type “Python”.

Now that we have installed both the IDE and the language, let us go ahead and configure it on your computer. But before we do that, we need to install the Python Extension in VS Code.

Of course, developers who prefer the single interactive window behavior can opt to retain it with a simple configuration tweak. The August 2020 update to Python in VS Code also includes support for ...

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.