We are pleased to announce that the August 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about Python support in Visual Studio Code in the VS Code documentation.
In this release we have closed a total of 38 issues including the stable release of our ptvsd 4 debugger, improvements to the language server preview, and other fixes.
Faster, more reliable debugging with ptvsd 4
In this release we are updating all users to the ptvsd 4.1.1 version of our Python debugger, providing a significant improvement to debugging performance and stability over the previous ptvsd 3.0 version. We originally announced an opt-in preview of ptvsd 4 in the February release of the Python extension, and have been continuing to improve on it based on user feedback. The new debug engine is built on top of the open source pydevd, which has allowed us to take advantage of its superior performance and support for third party libraries.
The new Python debugger supports the Logpoints feature added in the March iteration of VS Code. Logpoints allow you to essentially add print statements without having to stop execution. You can right-click on the margin and select “Add Logpoint…”, and then type in your message: