To run a Python script locally, you can use the “Python: Create Terminal” command (CTRL + Shift + P to open the command box, or CMD + Shift + P on a Mac) to create a terminal with the environment activated. Once you have picked your interpreter, the extension will use it for IntelliSense, refactoring, linting, running code, and debugging. The selector supports many different interpreters and Python environments: Python 2, 3, virtualenv, Anaconda, Pipenv and pyenv environments. You can easily select and switch between different Python interpreters by clicking on the Python version in the status bar:

The first thing you’ll want to do is make sure that Visual Studio Code is using the desired Python interpreter. Let’s take a quick look at some of the feature highlights. To get started, first download Visual Studio Code and then from there you can follow our Getting Started with Python tutorial to install the extension and get the basic features working. Python is the fastest growing language in Visual Studio Code, and the Microsoft Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular extensions on the Visual Studio Code marketplace! The Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is fully open source and integrates other open source Python packages for developers to provide rich editing, debugging, and testing capabilities. For more information and the latest news on everything Python at Microsoft, check out our Python at Microsoft blog. In this post we’ll take a tour of Python Developer tools in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure, and more.

What makes it attractive is its easy-to-learn semantics with powerful capabilities for a wide variety of applications from writing scripts, to building web services, to building machine learning models. Python is one of the fastest growing languages, with both beginner and expert developers taking to it. Microsoft’s teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio.

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