How do you use Interactive Python in Visual Studio 2017 Community?

Visual Studio provides access to Interactive C#, Python and F#. We have already seen how to use C# interacitve in visual Studio.

Herein, we will start Python Interactive in Visual Studio 2017 Community IDE.

Launch Visual Studio 2017 Community from All Programs (look under V).

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Click Start and in the start Window click View | Other Windows as shown. You will see all interactive programs that you can use in Visual Studio.

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Click Python Interactive. Python 3.7 (x32) opens as shown.

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Enter some simple calculation to start with and note that intellisense-type feature is available as long as the DB is current.

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You can see the result as shown.

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$help command opens the help file and keyboard shortcuts as shown.

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That is all...