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

If you see Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 when Installing Python, then the setup tool on your computer might not be installed or updated.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code has simplified the project setup experience for its main extension along with many other improvements in the regular monthly update, this for ...

Placing malicious code in 'setup.py,' however, will allow malware to be installed and unnoticed even if the package, or Python itself, is not used at all.

In the regular monthly update to Python tooling for Visual Studio Code, Microsoft announced an improved setup experience for Jupyter notebooks, along with new inlay type hints for the Pylance language ...

Microsoft updates its Python extension for VS Code with fixes for two security flaws and easier interpreter selection.

Microsoft's separate Jupyter notebooks extension aims to improve support for Python's programming language rivals.