There’s growing support for Python at Microsoft, with tools like Azure Notebooks taking advantage of it as a way of trying out ideas and sharing algorithms. Python is also one of the more popular ...

Microsoft recently announced an update to the Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) -- PTVS 2.0 alpha. This update to the tools provides new IntelliSense and debugging features, and adds improved ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

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For the first time, Python has cracked the top three in the TIOBE index of programming language popularity, helping to demonstrate why Microsoft has fully embraced the language in its Visual Studio ...

Microsoft has released a beta of its .Net port to Python. IronPython 1.0 Beta 1, which was released at the end of last week, is "well integrated" with the rest of the .Net programming framework and ...