Python support for Visual Studio is developed and managed here.
- Visit our product overview and downloads page, read our documentation and watch our (old) YouTube tutorials.
- Feel free to file issues or ask questions on our issue tracker, or use the Send Feedback functionality in Visual Studio to report a problem or suggest a feature.
- We welcome code contributions - see Contributing for information. Documentation contributions may be made at the visualstudio-docs repository.
- For all other documentation, please see the Wiki
When a project or workspace uses an unsupported Python version, Visual Studio shows a nonblocking information bar instead of a modal warning during solution load. Don't show this message again remembers the dismissal for that Python major/minor version across projects, workspaces, and Visual Studio restarts. A different unsupported version can still show its own warning. Closing the bar without that action only dismisses it for the current project or workspace session. This does not change which Python versions or features are supported.
The Python development workload is available as part of Visual Studio Community, Professional and Enterprise. To install, run the normal VS installer and select either the Python development workload or the Data science and analytical applications workload.
Prior to Visual Studio 2017, Python support was released as a standalone extension. We are no longer actively developing these versions, but if you are unable to upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 yet, you can use these older installers to get Python support.
PTVS 2.2.6 is the latest available version for Visual Studio 2015. You can also find it in the Visual Studio 2015 installer by selecting "Custom" and looking under the "Programming Languages" category.
PTVS 2.2.2 is the last release for Visual Studio 2013 users.
Thank you for using and supporting Python Tools for Visual Studio.