We are pleased to announce that the July release of the Python extension is now available for Visual Studio Code. 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 read more about Python support in Visual Studio Code in the documentation .

We’ve made 51 improvements in this release, including:

• Added support for a new language server: Pylance
• Gather Extension
• Exporting notebooks to HTML and PDF
• Debugger connection back

If you are interested, you can explore the full list of improvements in this list changes.

Support for our new language server: Pylance

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the release of Pylance, our new language server based on Microsoft’s Pyright static type checking tool .

Pylance is a fast language server that provides many features to help you write better code, including automatic imports, dead code detection, parameter and return type information, support for a multi-root production environment, and more. You can read the Pylance blog post to learn more about this.

Pylance recently added a context highlighting feature that helps you quickly identify where symbols are being used in a particular file.

You can install the Pylance extension from the marketplace… If you have the Pyright extension installed, you should uninstall it in favor of the Pylance extension to avoid installation conflicts and duplicate errors and warnings, since all Pyright features are included in Pylance.

If you are a Microsoft Python Language Server user, we recommend that you try Pylance. The new language server significantly improves Python IntelliSense in VSCode. Because of this, the long term plan is to eventually ditch the Microsoft Python Language Server as a supported option in the Python extension.

Gather Extension

We are pleased to announce that this release adds support for our new experimental extension, Gather. Gather is a recurring iteration, and we look forward to community feedback to improve Gather’s accuracy! This tool analyzes and identifies required code dependencies in notepad and performs code cleanup, thereby automating this complex and time-consuming task.

You can install Gather on the marketplace today . We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have any problems, feel free to register them in the vscode-python GitHub repository.

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