Python extension for Visual Studio Code

A Visual Studio Code extension with rich support for the Python language (including Python 3.6), with features including the following and more:

Linting (Prospector, Pylint, pycodestyle, Flake8, pylama, pydocstyle, mypy with config files and plugins)
Intellisense (autocompletion with support for PEP 484 and PEP 526)
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, nose, with config files)
Execute file or code in a python terminal
Snippets

Quick Start

Install the extension
optionally install ctags for Workspace Symbols, from here, or using brew install ctags on macOS
Select your Python interpreter
- If it's already in your path then you're set
- Otherwise, to select a different Python interpreter/version/environment (use the command Select Workspace Interpreter or look in the status bar)

Documentation

For further information and details continue through to the documentation.

Questions, Issues, Feature Requests, and Contributions

If you have a question about how to accomplish something with the extension, please ask on Stack Overflow
If you come across a problem with the extension, please file an issue
Contributions are always welcome! Please see our contributing guide for more details
Any and all feedback is appreciated and welcome!
- If someone has already file an issue that encompasses your feedback, please leave a 👍/👎 reaction on the issue
- Otherwise please file a new issue

Feature Details

IDE-like Features
- Automatic indenting
- Code navigation ("Go to", "Find all" references)
- Code definition (Peek and hover definition, View signatures)
- Rename refactoring
- Sorting import statements (use the Python: Sort Imports command)
Intellisense and Autocomplete (including PEP 484 support)
- Ability to include custom module paths (e.g. include paths for libraries like Google App Engine, etc.; use the setting python.autoComplete.extraPaths = [])
Code formatting
- Auto formatting of code upon saving changes (default to 'Off')
- Use either yapf or autopep8 for code formatting (defaults to autopep8)
Linting
- Support for multiple linters with custom settings (default is Pylint, but Prospector, pycodestyle, Flake8, pylama, pydocstyle, and mypy are also supported)
Debugging
- Watch window
- Evaluate Expressions
- Step through code ("Step in", "Step out", "Continue")
- Add/remove break points
- Local variables and arguments
- Multi-threaded applications
- 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 unittest, pytest, and nose
- Ability to run all failed tests, individual tests
- Debugging unit tests
Snippets
Miscellaneous
- Running a file or selected text in python terminal
Refactoring
- Rename Refactorings
- Extract Variable Refactorings
- Extract Method Refactorings
- Sort Imports

Supported locales

The extension is available in multiple languages thanks to external contributors (if you would like to contribute a translation, see the pull request which added simplified Chinese):

en
ru
zh-cn

Data/Telemetry

The Microsoft Python Extension for Visual Studio Code collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. This extension respects the telemetry.enableTelemetry setting which you can learn more about at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting.

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