The Python extension will automatically install the following extensions by default to provide the best Python development experience in VS Code: If you set this setting to true, you will manually opt ...

Code cells from Python scripts by default will still be executed in a same interactive window, but developers can now configure the Python extension to run separate files in separate interactive ...

Syntax highlighting in Python code -- along with other language-specific "smartness" -- is provided in Microsoft's Python extension for VS Code via the Pylance language server, and that's where the ...