Python

An extension with rich support for the Python language (including Python 3.6), with features including the following and more:

Linting (Prospector, Pylint, pycodestyle/Pep8, Flake8, pylama, pydocstyle with config files and plugins)
Intellisense (autocompletion with support for PEP-0484)
PySpark and 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)
Running and debugging Unit tests (unittest, pytest, nosetests, with config files)
Execute file or code in a python terminal
Local help file (offline documentation)
Snippets

Quick Start

Install the extension
optionally install ctags for Workspace Symbols, from here, or using brew install ctags on OSX.
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

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" ]

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

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"]

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