Microsoft drops official support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code

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Microsoft drops official support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code
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Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk

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Doubtless mindful of its popularity, Microsoft confirmed there were no plans to strip the code from the Visual Studio Code extension deliberately, saying:"We expect the extension will continue to work unofficially with Python 3.7 for the foreseeable future."Python has moved to an annual cadence for end of life. Python 3.

According to Microsoft, the Python extension for Visual Studio works with all actively supported versions of Python. 3.12 is the latest version and, unsurprisingly, has yet to influence the statistics too much. 3.13 is penciled in for release next year.listed it at the top of its list of languages for October 2023, ahead of C and C++, while the Stack Overflow developer survey placed the language third, behind HTML and JavaScript, but higher than SQL.

As well as dropping official support for Python 3.7, Microsoft also pushed out an update to the debugger extension – now renamed to"Python Debugger" – to include a setting to allow users to only step through their own code or hop into system or third-party library code without having to fiddle with the launch.json settings.

Other improvements include a Lint on change option for the Pylint extension, permitting errors and warnings to be displayed as a user types, and new settings around the Mypy Type Checker to allow a user to specify the reporting scope and whether to use mypy's daemon.

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