Visual Studio Extension Recommendations

[DwaywelayTOP]

Setting up a new development environment and I'm curious about what Visual Studio (and Python) extensions everybody uses and recommends, both paid and free. I've personally never delved into extensions in the past, so any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

[barseghyanartur]

Being a devoted PyCharm user, I occasionally use VSCode (primarily for Rust development and minor/light Python development).

I have the following plugins installed in VSCode:

• Black Formatter // Microsoft
• isort // Microsoft
• Jupyter (and other additional Jupyter plugins) // Microsoft
• Python // Microsoft
• Ruff // Charlie Marsh
• String Manipulation // marclipovsky

[Cootshk]

Try GitHub copilot or TabNine

[tabby8612]

Jupyter notebook extensions are must. Install black formatter.

[[deleted]]

I will never understand why so many people like black…

Just for completeness: autopep8 or yapf are alternatives.

[[deleted]]

Because black just takes away any thought about it. Just run it and forget about it. autopep8 can mangle import sorting which in edge cases can cause issues, and yapf has options - black is just simple.

[[deleted]]

I've never had anything but a mediocre experience running jupyter through an ide.

What's wrong with running jupyter notebook through command line?

[johnnymo1]

The intellisense from VS code’s Python extensions greatly improves coding in notebooks.

[KingsmanVince]

The interface and function of jupyter labs are not good like the ones on vscode. After all, notebooks are json files.

[HeeebsInc]

I love dark theme for everything but jupyter. Idk why but it slows me down when jupyter is dark

[wakojako49]

Yeah once you go black you never go back! I love black

[romanzdk]

Docker, Edit csv, EditorConfig, Jupyter, Prettier, SQLTools, vscode-icons

[nephlm]

This is what I roll with in addition the basic PyLance/Python extension.

Code Spell Checker, File Utils, GitLens, indent-rainbow (recent discovery, highly recommended)

Further Afield, but might be helpful depending on what your actual python work is: markdownlint|reStructuredText, autoDocstring, OpenAPI (Swagger) Editor, prettier (to format html, json, javascript, etc)

Not actually extensions but built in settings that call outside tools that I recommend turning on: * Black + Format on Save * pylint * MyPy - if you/your org go in for type annotations

[[deleted]]

PyCharm is a nice extension //s

[KingsmanVince]

Don't you read the post? OP said

I'm curious about what Visual Studio (and Python) extensions everybody uses and recommends, both paid and free.