This article is an addendum to the article, "Developing and Debugging Harbour Programs with VSCODE (Visual Studio Code)."

If you are primarily a Python developer, you could skip all but the debugging Harbour-specific sections from the main article.

Go to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python to download the extension, then install it.

This extension is maintained by Microsoft and is THE MOST popular extension.

As stated in the marketplace, this extension provides, "IntelliSense, linting, debugging, code navigation, code formatting, Jupyter notebook support, refactoring, variable explorer, test explorer, snippets, and more." 

It is also python virtual environment-aware and provides support to Flask and Remote debugging. 

The list of features still changes and grows to a point that makes VSCODE as powerful (in some aspects) to commercial editors of the likes of Wing (by wingware.com) and PyCharm (by JetBrains)

The main advantages of VSCODE in comparison to the other editors:

One of the easiest ways to see what you can do with the Python extension is to view the following 45-minute, YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TILIcrrVABg

Reminder, in the binary download of VSCODE, by default, Microsoft will "spy" on your use of VSCODE. They call that telemetry. See the main article if you want to learn how to turn this off or how to use an MIT install of VSCODE instead.

On Microsoft Windows, to support Virtual Environment, you may need to tell windows to allow Powershell scripts, since activate is a powershell scrip.
https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170

>powershell
>Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
>exit

To update pip install: >python -m pip install --upgrade pip

You can install Python packages in the VSCODE terminal, once a virtual environment is activated.

The following demonstrates how to set up a workspace that is set for Python programs: