Microsoft says its new Pylance language server will make Python developers who use VS Code far more productive.

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

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Using a Python Interpreter You can choose to write your code in a text file, but how does it run? The Python interpreter reads the text file and runs it as Python code.

Data journalists often run Python in “JupyterLab”, an open-source web application that creates documents that allow you to import data, run code and create visualisations.