As mentioned, most Linux machines will come with Python built in, but if yours doesn’t, you’ll need to grab the interpreter. From there, you can go ahead and set up Visual Studio Code for Python.

One of the things that makes Python so powerful is that you can find a module for almost anything. In this article, I cover Astropy, which was originally developed by the Space Telescope Science ...

Python 3.13’s installer lets you install the free-threaded build of Python side-by-side with the regular build. You can use the “py” utility to select which one to use for a given program.