Microsoft unveils Pylance, its new Python extension for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft has pulled back the drapes on Pylance, a Visual Studio Code extension for faster and more complete Python language support in that popular code editor.
Pylance doesn't replace the existing Microsoft-authored Python extension for Visual Studio Code, which has some 21 million installations to its name. Instead, Pylance expands on the existing Python extension to provide fast, static type checking (using Microsoft's Pyright project), live type information about symbols, autocomplete, auto-imports, code outlining and navigation, and other tools for Python development.