Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Data Wrangler extension for Visual Studio Code! Data Wrangler is a free extension that offers data viewing and cleaning that is directly integrated into VS Code and the Jupyter extension. It provides a rich user interface to view and analyze your data, show insightful column statisti...

The September 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include updates to the Create Environment command, a new terminal auto-activation experiment, and a new yapf extension. Keep reading to learn more!

Notebooks in VS Code are getting revamped! This experience is currently being exclusively rolled out to VS Code Insiders so be sure to download today to try it out!

Carl Kadie, Ph.D., is a research developer in Microsoft Research/TnR working on Genomics.Lambda expressions provide a way to pass functionality into a function. Sadly, Python puts two annoying restrictions on lambda expressions. First, lambdas can only contain an expression, not statements. Second, lambdas can't be serialized to disk. T...

Ever get the feeling your users aren't that happy with your project? We all get those issues that are real downers on our repository. So I thought, let's take these issues and make something fun. Using the Text Analytics Service and the WordCloud Python package, we can make some pretty pictures out of otherwise negative comments. I also found it ...

https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpoIn 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2.Are you using Python 3 for your development? It has been out for 7+ years at this point. So, if you aren't using it, why not? Since December of 2008, the initial release of Python 3, it seems the new version of Python has lived in the s...