What is in Visual Studio 2015 for a developer in Python

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With the version of Visual Studio 2015 Community , Microsoft for the first time offered developers to use a fully functional version of their powerful development tool for free. Let me remind you that the functionality of the Visual Studio 2015 Community almost completely provides the functionality of the Professional version , but it has some licensing restrictions for use in commercial development.
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The Visual Studio 2015 Community, like the rest of the tool, is extensible, thanks to the Visual Studio Marketplace and all the official tool updates. That is a huge, ever-increasing amount of functionality available to developers for free. This also applies to tools for development in the Python language .

Python support will become available by ticking the appropriate box when setting the environment. This also applies to CPython, PyPy, IronPython, IntelliSense support, interactive debugging, integration, and other features of Visual Studio for Python:

Easy editing
Tooltips, snippets, auto substitution



Required Libraries
pip, PyPI and virtual environment support for managing your projects and dependencies.



Debugging
You can interactively diagnose problems in the code. Visual Studio helps you step through your code, view and change states, and interact with the program regardless of the operating system.



Interactivity
The familiar REPL works on data in the process being debugged, allowing you to compute complex expressions on the fly and redefine classes and functions. The Interactive Window will instantly display results, errors, graphics, and images. IPython integration provides the developer with a powerful data processing platform.



Code management
With Team Explorer, you can manage your Git / TFS projects, pending changes and branches. It is also possible to try out many other code management extensions available for Visual Studio.



Unit testing
The correct operation of your code can be checked directly in Visual Studio. You can view, edit, run and debug unit tests from Test Windows.

Conclusion

Python tools are a completely free extension developed and supported by Microsoft with the participation of the community. You can visit the page on GitHub to view or participate in their development.

useful links

• Visual Studio 2015: free offers for developers
• Additional and free tools and services in Visual Studio Dev Essentials
• Laboratory work on the development, testing and management of the life cycle of software for Visual Studio 2015
• Laboratory work on the development of universal applications on Windows 10