How Python uses type hints (it doesn’t) A key misconception about Python type hints is how they’re used. Python type hints are not used at runtime, at least not ordinarily. In fact, when your ...

According to The Register, VS Code is one of the most popular Python IDEs. In fact, there wasn’t much difference in its user base (29%) compared to that of the winner, JetBrains PyCharm (33% ...

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Now, getting the latest builds of the super-popular Python extension in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace (nearly 52 million installs) is easier. "For a smoother opt-in and upgrade experience, we're ...

The next version of the Python-to-C translator will be a major release, with more tools than ever to speed up your code. Here’s how to try it now.

The Python creator was hired by open-source friendly Microsoft in November, bringing him out of retirement after a stint at Dropbox where he helped it wrangle four million lines of Python code.

News. VS Code Python Devs Get 'Full' Language Server Mode for Pylance. By David Ramel; 01/09/2025; Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped ...

Improve your Python testing even more. In my last two articles, I introduced pytest, a library for testing Python code (see "Testing Your Code with Python's pytest" Part I and Part II). pytest has ...