Use the Python extension for Visual Studio Code to create, manage, run, and test Python projects easily.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop functionality.

That changed last month, and the company is now expanding AI coding capabilities to Google Colab, its cloud-based Python development environment.

Why it matters: Google is bringing a fresh touch of AI paint to yet another internet service, providing coders with cheap, accessible resources to run Python code in a web browser. Colab will ...

It now also features integration with Google's other products and can export code to Colab, the company's cloud-based notebook environment for Python, as well as help users write functions for Sheets.

What is Google Colab? Google Colab (short for colaboratory) is a cloud-based Jupyter Notebook environment that enables users to write and execute Python code directly in their browser.

Aimed at machine learning, education, and data analysis, Google Colab lets you write and execute Python in a browser. Codey in Colab has been “customized especially for Python and for Colab ...

Google's Bard AI chatbot is now able to help users with programming, including generating code, debugging and code explanation.