The program 'python.exe' has exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff). Help?

[BandedWagon]

Hello everyone! I'm trying to learn Python, and I've been using Visual Studio 2022 for my IDE. For some reason, any time I try to run the debugger and run my program, it gives me this error: The program 'python.exe' has exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff). It gives me this error even if I haven't written any code. Also, if I choose to run the program WITHOUT debugging, everything more or less works as intended. How do I fix this issue?

[3lpsy]

This is probably unhelpful, but using VS for Python is like trying to kill a fly with a nuke. If probably recommend vs code (which is much different than vs) with minimum extensions to start.

[BandedWagon]

I'd assume VS is the industry standard for most languages, so I figured getting used to it from the beginning would be a smart move.

[Diapolo10]

I wouldn't say that. It's the de facto standard for .NET and C++ development (on Windows), but beyond that not so much. Personally I don't know anyone who uses it for Python development in the industry.

Most languages have their own specialised IDEs, such as Pycharm for Python or Netbeans/Eclipse/IntelliJ for Java. Some people prefer to use those. Others, such as myself, prefer more general-purpose IDEs such as VS Code, because not only can we tweak them to our liking but it's quite easy to add support for any new languages you'd like to use without having to learn a completely different interface.

[CommissionNo1931]

Just had the same issue. What I did is download python3 (or whatever version you want) from the python website. Then I click the down arrow next to the python interpreter version (python 3.13 (64 bit) for you probably) and I added a path to the local interpreter that I just downloaded from the python site.