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.

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

The 2.0 alpha release also provides stronger ties to Windows Azure, with support for Windows Azure VMs, Web sites, client libraries and more. Using the PTVS Windows Azure features allows developers ...

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 26.6 million times, making it the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.

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.