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Mar 12, 2025

New Python Driver for SQL Server and Azure SQL!

Perry,

Sumit

We’re thrilled to announce the alpha release of our new open-source Python driver for Microsoft SQL Server and the Azure SQL family, now available on GitHub at mssql-python.

Mar 5, 2025

Python in Visual Studio Code – March 2025 Release

Courtney Webster

The March 2025 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include improvements to shell integration, a new setting to change auto test discovery file patterns, inline values shown on hover, and more!

Feb 6, 2025

Python in Visual Studio Code – February 2025 Release

Courtney Webster

The February 2025 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include .

Dec 11, 2024

Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2024 Release

jikang

The December 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include a special review of docstring generation features from Pylance, the new Python Environments extension in preview, Pylance's "full" language server mode, and much more. Keep reading to learn more!

Dec 9, 2024

2024 Python in VS Code Wrapped

Courtney,

Eleanor

As the year comes to a close, we would like to take the time to reflect and celebrate the incredible progress the Python extension for VS Code has made in the past year. From merging in top requested features to countless lines of code written and deleted, keep reading to get an inside look to all things

Dec 2, 2024

Announcing: Azure Developers – Python Day

Dawn Wages

Experience cloud computing with Python on Azure during Python Day 2024!

Nov 4, 2024

Announcing GitHub Copilot in Data Wrangler

Jeffrey Mew

AI did not write this blog post, but it will make your exploratory data analysis with Data Wrangler better!Today, we’re excited to introduce our first step of integrating the power of Copilot into Data Wrangler.With this first integration of Copilot with Data Wrangler, you’ll be able to: An example of using Copilot in Data Wrangler to filter for listings that allow dogs/cats A common limitation of using AI tools for exploratory data analysis tasks today is the lack of data context provided to the AI. Responses are typically more generalized and not tailored to the specifi...

Nov 1, 2024

Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2024 Release

Courtney Webster

The November 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include docstring template generation with Pylance, Fold/Unfold All Docstrings commands, a variable view with the Native REPL and more!

Oct 4, 2024

Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2024 Release

Courtney Webster

The October 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include Python test coverage support and a default Python problem matcher. Keep reading to learn more!

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