Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

The Visual Studio Code dev team added new Python tutorials as part of the regular monthly update, this one for March 2020, bringing the open-source, cross-platform code editor to version 1.44.

Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development Click on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window (it looks like four squares). In the search bar, type “Python”.

The marketplace of Visual Studio Code extensions offers thousands of ways to expand VS Code’s behavior and alter its look-and-feel. Most every language in wide use—e.g., Python, shown here ...

Microsoft's open-source Visual Studio Code is growing hand in hand with Python. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer April 25, 2019, 5:08 a.m. PT ...

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

Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing Microsoft's venerable IDE receives its biannual update.