An extension with rich support for the Python language, with features including the following and more:

• Linting (Prospector, Pylint, pycodestyle/Pep8, Flake8, pydocstyle with config files and plugins)
• Intellisense (autocompletion with support for PEP-0484)
• Scientific tools (Jupyter/IPython)
• Auto indenting
• Code formatting (autopep8, yapf, with config files)
• Code refactoring (Rename, Extract Variable, Extract Method, Sort Imports)
• Viewing references, code navigation, view signature
• Excellent debugging support (remote debugging over SSH, mutliple threads, django, flask)
• Unit testing, including debugging (unittest, pytest, nosetests, with config files)
• Execute file or code in a python terminal
• Local help file (offline documentation)
• Snippets

• Install the extension
• If Python is in the current path
  • You're ready to use it.
• If using a custom Python Version or a Virtual Environment, use the command Select Workspace Interpreter)

For further information and details continue through to the documentation.

• Contributions are always welcome. Fork it, modify it and create a pull request.
  • Details on contributing can be found here
• Any and all feedback is appreciated and welcome.
  • Please feel free to add suggestions here

• IDE Features

• Auto indenting
• Code navigation (Go to, Find all references)
• Code definition (Peek and hover definition, View Signature)
• Rename refactoring
• Sorting Import statements (use "Python: Sort Imports" command)

• Intellisense and Autocomplete with support for PEP-0484

• Ability to include custom module paths (e.g. include paths for libraries like Google App Engine, etc.)
• Use the setting python.autoComplete.extraPaths = []
• For instance getting autocomplete/intellisense for Google App Engine, add the following to your settings file:

"python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [
    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/google_appengine",
    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/google_appengine/lib" ]

• Scientific tools (Jupyter/IPython)

• Executing blocks of code (cells) in a Jupyter Kernel
• Managing kernels (restarting, stopping, interrupting and selecting different kernels)
• Viewing interactive graphs, HTML, SVG, LaTeX output from Jupyter from within Visual Studio Code

• Code formatting

• Auto formatting of code upon saving changes (default to 'Off')
• Use either yapf or autopep8 for code formatting (defaults to autopep8)

• Linting

• It can be turned off (default is to be turned on and use pylint)
• Multiple linters supported (along with support for configuration files for each linter)
• Supported linters include pylint, pep8, flake8, pydocstyle, prospector
• Paths to each of the linters can be optionally configured
• Custom plugins such as pylint plugin for Django can be easily used by modifying the settings as follows:

"python.linting.pylintArgs": ["--load-plugins", "pylint_django"]

• Debugging

• Watch window
• Evaluate Expressions
• Step through code (Step in, Step out, Continue)
• Add/remove break points
• Local variables and arguments
• Multiple Threads and Web Applications (such as Flask, Django, with template debugging)
• Expanding values (viewing children, properties, etc)
• Conditional break points
• Remote debugging (over SSH)
• Google App Engine
• Debugging in the integrated or external terminal window

• Debugging as sudo
• Unit Testing

• Support for unittests, nosetests and pytest
• Test results are displayed in the "Python" output window
• Run failed tests, individual tests

• Snippets
• Miscellaneous

• Running a file or selected text in python terminal

• Refactoring

• Rename Refactorings
• Extract Variable Refactorings
• Extract Method Refactorings
• Sort Imports

• Remove dependency on zmq when using Jupyter or IPython (pure python solution)
• Added a default keybinding for Jupyter:Run Selection/Line of ctrl+alt+enter
• Changes to update settings.json with path to python using native API
• Changes to use native API for formatting when saving documents
• Reusing existing terminal instead of creating new terminals
• Limiting linter messages to opened documents (hide messages if document is closed) #375
• Resolving extension load errors when #375
• Fixes to discovering unittests #386
• Fixes to sending code to terminal on Windows #387
• Fixes to executing python file in terminal on Windows #385
• Fixes to launching local help (documentation) on Linux
• Fixes to typo in configuration documentation #391
• Fixes to use python.pythonPath when sorting imports #393
• Fixes to linters to handle situations when line numbers aren't returned #399
• Fixes to signature tooltips when docstring is very long #368, #113

• Igor Novozhilov
  • Fix for autocompletion and code navigation with unicode characters #372, #364
• Luca Mussi
  • Fix typo in configuration documentation #391
  • Fix to use python.pythonPath when sorting imports #393
• Andris Raugulis

GitHub

MIT