Microsoft brings lots of new features and improvements to its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

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Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page highlighting the latest features, changes, tutorials and more.

VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code has smoothed the "getting started" experience for its main extension along with many other improvements in the regular monthly update, this for ...

However, Python 3.5 added a new feature called 'asyncio', which, when used correctly, can be excellent for writing efficient IO-bound code.