Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 26.6 million times, making it the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.

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.

Learn how to install and set up Visual Studio Code for Python development with this easy step-by-step guide. Perfect for beginners and seasoned developers!

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

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.

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