Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Does Visual Studio 2017 support Python?

Yes, in a big way. Just the Intellisense support may by itself a great help.

You need to install PTVS (Python Tools for Visual Studio) to have Python support in Visual Studio (2017,2015, 2013 and earlier). In Visual Studio 2015 you need a Python Interpreter (Python 3.5 or earlier, 3.6 and above are not supported). The VS may guide you to install a Python Interpreter.

Python support is not presently available in Visual Studio for Mac, but is available on Mac and Linux through Visual Studio Code.

More here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/installing-python-support-in-visual-studio

Well, here is my personal take. I have Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017, version 15.5.7 which has the following Python related products:

VS2017Python_1

In the installed templates I can see all of the following that are specific to Python:


VS2017Python_0

What is more. You also get other perks, if you install Visual Studio that I have installed:


VS2017Python_2


Actually, I have other Python stuff as well:










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