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July 2018 - Python

Come see us at EuroPython 2018!

July 19, 2018 Jul 19, 2018 07/19/18
Dan Taylor
Next week is the EuroPython conference from July 23-29 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of EuroPython this year, and are looking forward to meeting you there! Be sure to come by our booth and check out our sessions. If you can’t make it, don’t worry, we’ll be sharing the content from the conference on our Python ...

Introducing the Python Language Server

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
Steve Dower
Visual Studio has long been recognized for the quality of its IntelliSense (code analysis and suggestions) across all languages, and has had support for Python since 2011. We are pleased to announce that we are going to be making the Python support available to other tools as the Microsoft Python Language Server. It is available first today in...

Python in Visual Studio Code – June & July 2018 Release

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
Brett Cannon
We are pleased to announce that the June & July 2018 releases of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available from the marketplace and the gallery. Between these two releases we have closed a total of 156 issues including introducing a new experimental language server and gevent support in our experimental debugger.

New web app tutorials in the VS and VS Code Python docs, and docs feedback

July 17, 2018 Jul 17, 2018 07/17/18
Dan Taylor
Recognizing the popularity of the Django and Flask web app frameworks, we recently added several tutorials in the Python documentation that guide you through working with these frameworks in Microsoft’s Python-capable IDEs: the lightweight Visual Studio Code available on all operating systems, and the full Visual Studio for Windows. We also wanted to take the opportunity to highlight how you can contribute to docs, and the ways you can give feedback—both of which we very much welcome!