We are pleased to announce that the August release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can  download the Python extension  from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. If you already have the Python extension installed, you can also get the latest update by restarting Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about Python support in Visual Studio Code  in the documentation.

In this release we addressed a total of 38 issues, and it includes:

• Support for multiple Python interactive windows
• Pylance as an officially supported language server setting value
• Smart signature help with Pylance

If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelog.

Support for multiple Python interactive windows

We’re excited to announce that you can now start multiple Python interactive windows with the Python extension! This was one of the most requested features on the Python in VS Code GitHub repo.

By default, every time you run the “Python: Create Python Interactive Window” command in the command palette (**View **> Command Palette…), it will create a new interactive window in VS Code:

Multiple interactive windows being created when running the “Python: Create Python Interactive Window” command, image

Code cells from Python scripts by default will still be executed in a same interactive window. However, you can now configure the Python extension to run separate files in separate interactive windows.  Just open the settings page (**File **> **Preferences **> Settings), search for “interactive window mode” and change the setting value to “perFile”.

Now when you run cells from different files, they will each run on their own separate window:

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