Microsoft brings lots of new features and improvements to its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

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VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension.