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.

Microsoft plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server. IntelliSense provides autocompletions for variables, functions, and ...

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.

PTVS is an open source, free plug-in that allows for Python developing inside Visual Studio. It supports a variety of Python implementations and frameworks, including IronPython, CPython and Django.

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