We are pleased to announce that the September 2019 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. If you already have the Python extension installed, you can also get the latest update by restarting Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about Python support in Visual Studio Code in the documentation.
This was a short release where we closed 35 issues, including improvements to the Python Language Server and to Jupyter Notebook cell debugging, as well as detection of virtual environment creation. The full list of enhancements is listed in our changelog.
Improvements to Python Language Server
The Python Language Server now has linting capabilities, and its latest release includes new linting messages and a variety of additional general improvements, which are listed in the section “Other changes and enhancements” below.
The linting messages provided by the Python Language Server include detecting unresolved imports, undefined variables, too many arguments in a function call, unknown keyword arguments and inheriting from something that is not a class. To see the full detailed list of linting messages, you can check the documentation in the Language Server GitHub repo or the settings reference page within the Python for Visual Studio Code docs.