First, let's look at how to deal with data files. The common file format used in astrophysics and astronomy is the FITS file format. The PyFITS Python package was written to read and write FITS files.

Over the past few years, it has exploded in popularity. Thanks to Microsoft’s Python extension for Visual Studio Code, VS Code has also become one of the best tools for working with Python.

For the first time, Python has cracked the top three in the TIOBE index of programming language popularity, helping to demonstrate why Microsoft has fully embraced the language in its Visual Studio ...

In April, Microsoft Python guru Steve Dower noted that "As of today, the Python development and Data Science and Analytical Applications workloads are stable and ready for production use". Just a ...

The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace, where it's currently the most popular programming language by a long mile.

Microsoft is continuing to bang the AI drum with its developer tools, with its latest announcement that VS Code is shipping as part of the Anaconda Python distribution.

Unfortunately, the Python extensions, which need a language server, and Debug and Run functionality for any language, are absent from Visual Studio Code for the Web. “Limited functionality” is ...