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Details

Package ID

vscode-python

Version

2020.4.76186

Downloads

2086

Website

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python

Summary

Linting, Debugging (multi-threaded, remote), Intellisense, code formatting, refactoring, unit tests, snippets, and more.

Description

A Visual Studio Code extension withrich support for the Python language (for all actively supported versions of the language: 2.7, >=3.5), including features such as IntelliSense, linting, debugging, code navigation, code formatting, Jupyter notebook support, refactoring, variable explorer, test explorer, snippets, and more!

Features

• IntelliSense: Edit your code with auto-completion, code navigation, syntax checking and more
• Linting: Get additional code analysis with Pylint, Flake8 and more
• Code formatting: Format your code with black, autopep or yapf
• Debugging: Debug your Python scripts, web apps, remote or multi-threaded processes
• Testing: Run and debug tests through the Test Explorer with unittest, pytest or nose
• Jupyter Notebooks: Define and run code cells, render plots, visualize variables through the variable explorer and more
• Environments: Automatically activate and switch between virtualenv, venv, pipenv, conda and pyenv environments
• Refactoring: Restructure your Python code with variable extraction, method extraction and import sorting

Notes

• This package requires Visual Studio Code 1.43.0 or newer. You can install either the vscode or vscode-insiders package.
• The extension will be installed in all editions of Visual Studio Code which can be found.
• While this package installs a specific version of the extension, Visual Studio Code by default will update the extension to the latest version on startup if there’s a newer version available on the marketplace. See Extension auto-update for instructions on how to disable auto-update.
• This package is automatically updated using the Chocolatey Automatic Package Update Model (AU). If you find it is out of date by more than a day or two, please contact the maintainer(s) and let them know the package is no longer updating correctly.

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