The Python extension for the open source Visual Studio Code editor -- the most popular offering available in the marketplace -- has been updated with improved debugging functionality. With more than 8.3 million installations, the reflects VS Code's of Python, which involved hiring the original developer of the then-independent extension, taking over the project as its own, to further its functionality and it with the Anaconda Python distribution. The VS Code team published for the extension that says: 'It leverages all of VS Code's power to provide auto complete and IntelliSense, linting, debugging, and unit testing, along with the ability to easily switch between Python environments, including virtual and conda environments.'

The team has continually improved the capabilities of the extension, and in the March update highlighted improved debugging functionality. While the (February) introduced a preview version of the debugger with limited feature support, the new release adds new enhancements to the preview. 'Debug configurations have been added for more app types: Django, PySpark, Pyramid, Watson and Scrapy,' Dan Taylor of Microsoft's Python engineering team.

'The preview debugger is also now bundled with the extension so you no longer need to manually install ptvsd to try it out, simply add one of the Experimental Debugger configurations and start debugging.' Also, he said, the new release adds support for Django template debugging, support for debugging unit tests and Jinja template debugging support for apps other than Flask, in addition to closing 61 issues.

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