Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop functionality.

News VS Code Python Team Improves Interactive REPL By David Ramel 11/02/2023 Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's ...

But even when I was learning Python, for instance, the interactive mode didn't help me that much in understanding the strange result my method was returning; the debugger did.