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Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code ��� May 2025 Release
- The May 2025 release of Python, Pylance, and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code has been announced by Microsoft.
- Key announcements include new features like Python Environments Quick Create command, chat tools, automatic environment activation, color picker with Pylance, and AI Code Actions.
- The Python Environments extension now supports Quick Create for creating virtual environments with minimal input required.
- Chat tools 'Get Python Environment Information' and 'Install Python Package' provide seamless access to environment details and package installation.
- Automatic environment activation can be achieved with Python Environments by setting the 'python-envs.terminal.autoActivationType' to command or shellStartup.
- Pylance now offers a color picker feature to visualize and select colors in Python files.
- AI Code Actions in Pylance include converting string concatenations to f-string or format().
- Microsoft's presence at PyCon US 2025 includes various talks on topics related to Python development.
- Improvements in the Python and Jupyter extensions include branch coverage support for Python in the Testing Explorer.
- Additional changes and enhancements have been made based on user requests to improve the Python and Jupyter Notebook experience in Visual Studio Code.
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