An extension with rich support for the Python language (including Python 3.6), with features including the following and more:

• Linting (Prospector, Pylint, pycodestyle/Pep8, Flake8, pylama, pydocstyle with config files and plugins)
• Intellisense (autocompletion with support for PEP-0484)
• Auto indenting
• Code formatting (autopep8, yapf, with config files)
• Code refactoring (Rename, Extract Variable, Extract Method, Sort Imports)
• Viewing references, code navigation, view signature
• Excellent debugging support (remote debugging over SSH, mutliple threads, django, flask)
• Running and debugging Unit tests (unittest, pytest, nosetests, with config files)
• Execute file or code in a python terminal
• Local help file (offline documentation)
• Snippets

• Install the extension
• optionally install ctags for Workspace Symbols, from here, or using brew install ctags on OSX.
• If Python is in the current path
  • You're ready to use it.
• To select a different Python Interpreter/Version (or use Virtual Environment), use the command Select Workspace Interpreter)

For further information and details continue through to the documentation.

• Contributions are always welcome. Fork it, modify it and create a pull request.
  • Details on contributing can be found here
• Any and all feedback is appreciated and welcome.
  • Please feel free to add suggestions here

• IDE Features

• Auto indenting
• Code navigation (Go to, Find all references)
• Code definition (Peek and hover definition, View Signature)
• Rename refactoring
• Sorting Import statements (use "Python: Sort Imports" command)

• Intellisense and Autocomplete with support for PEP-0484

• Ability to include custom module paths (e.g. include paths for libraries like Google App Engine, etc.)
• Use the setting python.autoComplete.extraPaths = []
• For instance getting autocomplete/intellisense for Google App Engine, add the following to your settings file:

"python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [
    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/google_appengine",
    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/google_appengine/lib" ]

• Scientific tools (Jupyter/IPython)

• This functionality has been moved into a separate extension Jupyter

• Code formatting

• Auto formatting of code upon saving changes (default to 'Off')
• Use either yapf or autopep8 for code formatting (defaults to autopep8)

• Linting

• It can be turned off (default is to be turned on and use pylint)
• Multiple linters supported (along with support for configuration files for each linter)
• Supported linters include pylint, pep8, flake8, pydocstyle, prospector
• Paths to each of the linters can be optionally configured
• Custom plugins such as pylint plugin for Django can be easily used by modifying the settings as follows:

"python.linting.pylintArgs": ["--load-plugins", "pylint_django"]

• Debugging

• Watch window
• Evaluate Expressions
• Step through code (Step in, Step out, Continue)
• Add/remove break points
• Local variables and arguments
• Multiple Threads and Web Applications (such as Flask, Django, with template debugging)
• Expanding values (viewing children, properties, etc)
• Conditional break points
• Remote debugging (over SSH)
• Google App Engine
• Debugging in the integrated or external terminal window

• Debugging as sudo
• Unit Testing

• Support for unittests, nosetests and pytest
• Test results are displayed in the "Python" output window
• Run failed tests, individual tests
• Debugging unittests

• Snippets
• Miscellaneous

• Running a file or selected text in python terminal

• Refactoring

• Rename Refactorings
• Extract Variable Refactorings
• Extract Method Refactorings
• Sort Imports

• Fix incorrect indenting #880

• Yuwei Ba

• Add support for new variable syntax in upcoming VS Code release #774, #855, #873, #823
• Resolve issues in code refactoring #802, #824, #825
• Changes to labels in Python Interpreter lookup #815
• Resolve Typos #852
• Use fully qualitified Python Path when installing dependencies #866
• Commands for running tests from a file #502
• Fix Sorting of imports when path contains spaces #811
• Fixing occasional failure of linters #793, #833, #860
• Added ability to pre-load some modules to improve autocompletion #581

• Ashwin Mathews
• Alexander Ioannidis
• Andreas Schlapsi

GitHub

MIT