1. Start Python In Visual Studio
2. How To Run Python In Visual Studio

• There is a Visual Studio Shell command execute file in Python interactive which is bound to Shift+Alt+F5 by default. This works: if the focus is in a code window then the current file is executed. If the focus is in the Solution Explorer window, the file selected as 'Startup item' is executed.
• It sounds very obvious to many but, for those who are new to Python as well as Visual Studio Code I would like to inform you that Visual Studio Code can be used to debug and run Python code. But, ‘Visual Studio Code doesn’t come with Python‘. So, we will have to install python separately.

Avoid using the built-in 'Run' button. Instead, open a new built-in terminal, activate your venv or conda environment and then execute your script via terminal.

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In this articleLaunch Visual Studio 2019 and in the start window, select Open at the bottom of the Get started column. Alternately, if you already have Visual Studio running, select the File > Open > Folder command instead. Navigate to the folder containing your Python code, then choose Select Folder.

Additionally, how good is Visual Studio for Python? It's a good app for writing Python. They have a free community edition and a paid for professional edition. It is lighter weight than Visual Studio but if you're already working with C++ then you'll likely get Visual Studio anyway. Jetbrains' C++ IDE is pay for software.

Also question is, how do I run a Python program in Visual Studio 2017?

1. create a new visual studio project ( ctrl + shift + N )
2. Select python as project type.
3. Now you can create new python file ( *.py) and start code python ( ctrl + N )
4. Now you can right click the py file that you just created and use 'set as startup file' command.

Is Python owned by Microsoft?

Start Python In Visual Studio

But just eight years ago, Python's footprint within Microsoft was a few scattered engineers who cared about the open source language, with most of the company giving it a Redmond shrug. Today, the story is quite different. 'Many Microsoft products now include Python support, and some of the newest only support Python.'

There isn’t much support for Python in Microsoft new code editor Visual Studio Code (VSCode), but there is a neat way to run your Python code right inside VSCode. It’s a feature called tasks and while the examples give are for compiling code, you can pretty much just run any program against the code you are editing in VSCode.

Tasks

So let’s dive in and set-up a task that runs the traditional 'Hello World!' program within VSCode. In Python this is print 'Hello World!'.

First go and open up VSCode on an empty folder via the menu steps File -> Open Folder. The do Ctrl+Shift+P, then Configure Task and press Enter. This will create a folder called .settings and a file called tasks.json where you will configure your task. Comment out the first example task and put the following Python task at the top of the file and save it.

To run the task you can simply do Ctrl+Shift+B, as you’ve only defined one task for this folder. If you put another task at the top of the settings file then that task will be run. If you need to select a task do Ctrl+Shift+P, type Run Tasks, select python and press Enter.

You can find out more about tasks in VSCode here.

Result

The result of all this is that you now can run a python script and have the output displayed next to the code, as shown below.

How To Run Python In Visual Studio

I’ve only played with VSCode for a little while, but it seems solid and friendly. Hopefully support for more languages will be coming soon, but at least you can run any compiler or interpreter against your code using tasks.