Not everyone can declare themselves “benevolent dictator for life” of a company, but such was the nature of Guido van Rossum, the Dutch programmer who invented an entire programming language from ...

A stealthy campaign with 19 extensions on the VSCode Marketplace has been active since February, targeting developers with malware hidden inside dependency folders. The malicious activity was ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new extensions on Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that are designed to infect developer machines with stealer malware. The VS Code ...

Google's new AI-powered Antigravity IDE has triggered an intense discussion among developers after many users quickly concluded that the tool is based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. A Hacker News ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-quality code. Furthermore, instruct-finetuned versions of LLMs have shown remarkable proficiency in ...

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes VS Code Version: 1.101.1 OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045 I am using a class to modify the docstring of python functions and classes.

As requested, here's a new usecase (which is a subset of comments, really): disable copilot completions also in triple quoted python docstrings, which can be used as comments but are not considered a ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...