We are pleased to announce that the September 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. If you already have the Python extension installed, you can also get the latest update by restarting Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about Python support in Visual Studio Code in the documentation.
In this release we closed 80 issues, and it includes:
- A rich Python editing experience in the browser
- Revamped testing interface
- New button for running and debugging files on the editor
- An update regarding the Microsoft Python Language Server’s end of life, as well as for Python 2.7 IntelliSense support.
If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelog.
A rich Python editing experience (in the browser!) via github.dev
We are delighted to announce that as of this release you can enjoy the performant editing experience of Pylance in the browser via github.dev. If you are unfamiliar with github.dev, you can head over to any repo, pull request, or file on GitHub and hit ‘.’ on your keyboard (or change the URL to github.dev) to give it a shot!
We’ve added support for the core editing features you might want when exploring a new codebase or making minor edits to your Python code. These features include:
- Semantic highlighting
- Completions for built-ins, Pylance’s bundled stubs, locally defined symbols in the current file, and symbols in open files
- Syntax errors
- Code navigation
- Outline support
- Function signature help
- Contextual document highlighting
You can check out Dan Taylor giving a demo on the Python Bytes podcast of this new experience if you’d like!
We’re excited for you to give this new experience a try and welcome any feedback on the Pylance issue tracker.
Although running Python code in the browser isn’t yet supported, you can do so in a Jupyter notebook with the vscode-pyolite extension (in preview), made by one of our team members!
Revamped Testing Interface
We’re excited to announce that we have revamped the look of our Python testing features by