Pylance: The best Python extension for VS Code

The future of the Microsoft Python Language Server and why you should use it.

Dimitris Poulopoulos
Towards Data Science
5 min readDec 24, 2020

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Visual Studio Code is arguably the best open-source code editor, and, of course, Python is treated as a first-class citizen inside its ecosystem. The corresponding Microsoft extension comes with “rich support for the Python Language, including features like

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