Microsoft's Python support: running, debugging, environments.
The extension that makes VS Code a Python editor — run and debug files, pick an interpreter, manage virtual environments. Microsoft licenses it for its own products, so it does not install in Cursor and other forks.
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Key info
- Pricing
- Free
- Platform
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Category
- Plugins
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Cost
- Free
- Works in
- VS Code only: Microsoft licenses it for its own products, so Cursor and other forks cannot install it
- Install
- Python by Microsoft, in the VS Code marketplace
- Includes
- Running and debugging, interpreter and environment picking, Pylance
- Good for
- Any Python project, scripts included