Microsoft is making available to Python developers a free, open-source add-on to its Visual Studio suite.

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 plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server. IntelliSense provides autocompletions for variables, functions, and ...

Anaconda includes Microsoft's Visual Studio cross-platform code editor in its Python-based data science platform.