What's the best IDE for Python? Here's how IDLE, Komodo, PyCharm, PyDev, Microsoft's Python and Python Tools extensions for Visual Studio Code, and Spyder stack up.

Also interestingly, VS Code's ascension to No. 1 in the Python developer survey has come fairly recently. In the 2018 survey, for example, it garnered only 16 percent of respondent votes, sandwiched ...

Open Source, Python and Visual Studio Code Dominate in GitHub Student Survey. By Dian Schaffhauser; 12/07/20; Fledgling developers were more likely to contribute to open source coding projects this ...

Open Source, Python and Visual Studio Code Top Themes in GitHub Student Survey. By Dian Schaffhauser; 12/07/20; Fledgling developers were more likely to contribute to open source coding projects this ...

According to JetBrains' 2019 Python survey, PyCharm is by far the most widely used IDE for Python programming, ahead of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code for Python. Developer It's the end of ...

Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development Click on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window (it looks like four squares). In the search bar, type “Python”.

Anaconda includes Microsoft's Visual Studio cross-platform code editor in its Python-based data science platform.