The March 2020 update to Microsoft's wildly popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code focused on improving quality via bug fixes, but it did introduce a new debugger.

Version 1.0 of the new debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), called Debugpy, shows up in the latest update of the popular Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

You can invoke interactive debugging in a Python program as part of its normal execution. Here we’ll walk through a quick tour of how to use Python’s built-in interactive debugger, pdb.

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

Learn how to quickly format Python code for better readability using a free Python beautifier tool. Save time and write clean, professional code.