Microsoft for Python developers

Discover a suite of innovative tools, services, and resources tailored to elevate your Python development.

Tools

Cloud and AI developer tools

From Azure's powerful cloud solutions to our cutting-edge AI frameworks, Microsoft offers everything you need to build, deploy, and scale your Python projects seamlessly.

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Visual Studio Code

The lightweight, powerful and extensible editor, optimized for modern web and cloud applications.

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GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot uses AI to suggest entire functions in real-time, right from your editor. Work smarter.

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Azure

The cloud platform designed to help you bring new solutions to life.

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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Access the power of Windows and Linux at the same time on a Windows machine.

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Python on Windows

Find the information and ideas you need to power your ingenuity.

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Python for education

Unparalleled products and support for educators and students.

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Products

Products for Python
Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source development kit for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows for .NET and Python. It brings together and extends ideas from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects, combining their strengths while adding new capabilities.

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Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code

Check out this GitHub repo with Data Science for energy lab.

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VS Code AI Toolkit

A VS Code extension that simplifies generative AI app development by bringing together cutting-edge AI development tools and models from Azure AI Foundry Catalog and other catalogs like Hugging Face.

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Azure ML for VS Code

Don't leave your VS Code editor when managing Azure Machine Learning resources, training models, debugging ML experiments and schema-based language support.

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Customer stories

Customer success with Python

Learn how teams around the world are using our tools to augment their workflows.

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Square Enix uses Azure OpenAI Service for AI-enhanced game development

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    Azure Functions

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    Microsoft Copilot

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    Azure AI Search

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    Azure OpenAI

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Zooniverse's move to Azure enhances citizen science

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    Azure Cache for Redis

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    Azure DNS

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    Azure Database for PostgreSQL

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    Azure Front Door

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Dentsu reduces time to media insights by 90% using Azure AI

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    Azure OpenAI

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    Azure Machine Learning

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    Visual Studio

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    Azure Kubernetes Service

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Learn

Learn with Python

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Using GitHub Copilot with Python

GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code in Python.

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Explore and analyze data with Python

Data exploration and analysis are at the core of data science. Data scientists require skills in programming languages like Python to explore, visualize, and manipulate data.

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Using advanced GitHub Copilot features

Use advanced GitHub Copilot features with a Python application.

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Build a minigame with GitHub Copilot and Python

Demonstrate your ability to analyze, create, and use different methods to develop a console minigame in Python with GitHub.

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Repositories

On GitHub

Some of our most popular open-source Python libraries and tools.

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Pyright

Pyright is a full-featured, standards-based static type checker for Python. It is designed for high performance and can be used with large Python source bases.

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MarkItDown

MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines.

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PyRIT

Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT) is an open-source framework built to empower security professionals and engineers to proactively identify risks in generative AI systems.

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Microsoft Agent Framework

A framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET.

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BitNet

bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (for example, BitNet b1.58).

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GraphRAG

The GraphRAG project is a data pipeline and transformation suite that is designed to extract meaningful, structured data from unstructured text using the power of LLMs.

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Azure Command-Line Interface

A great cloud needs great tools; we're excited to introduce Azure CLI, our next generation multi-platform command-line experience for Azure.

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Azure SDK for Python

This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python.

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Playwright for Python

Playwright is a Python library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers with a single API. Playwright delivers automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

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Recent Python blog posts

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Luciana Abud

 •  November 13, 2025

Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2025 Release

The November 2025 release brings new Pylance features including improvements to Copilot Hover Summaries and a Code Action to convert wildcard imports to explicit imports. Keep on reading to learn more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2025 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.

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Luciana Abud

 •  October 10, 2025

Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2025 Release
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Jahnvi Thakkar

 •  September 26, 2025

Simplifying Resource Management in mssql-python through Context Manager
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Luciana Abud

 •  September 15, 2025

Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2025 Release
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Angelos Petropoulos

 •  August 19, 2025

Announcing the Data Wrangler powered Notebook Results Table
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