Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is a

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plug-in for versions of

Visual Studio Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including web site, websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development ...

up to VS 2015 providing support for programming in

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. Since VS 2017, it is integrated in VS and called Python Support in Visual Studio. It supports

IntelliSense Code completion is an autocompletion feature in many integrated development environments (IDEs) that speeds up the process of coding applications by fixing common mistakes and suggesting lines of code. This usually happens through popups while typ ...

, debugging, profiling, MPI cluster debugging, mixed C++/Python debugging, and more. It is released under the Apache License 2.0, and is developed primarily by

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. The first version was on March 8, 2011. The latest version for VS 2015 is 2.2.6.

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* {{Microsoft FOSS Integrated development environments Microsoft free software Python (programming language) software Software using the Apache license 2011 software Windows-only free software

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