Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker Remember those sites that tracked Python 3 compatibility with the top packages in PyPI? Here’s a similar tracker for seeing which libraries work ...

Microsoft announced a new extension pack for Visual Studio Code that bundles tools for Python development, assisted by the AI-powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler. The new Python Data Science ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

MarkItDown is an open-source Python library from Microsoft that converts various file formats to Markdown for indexing and analysis. Markdown is a popular lightweight markup language with plain text ...

FastHTML is a new Python web framework developed by Jeremy Howard and others, designed to simplify web development by minimizing the need for JavaScript and CSS. The framework leverages HTMX to allow ...

Microsoft 365 Insiders can check out a new version of Excel in Windows that now includes the Python Editor inside the app. It will also continue to be available as an add-in via Excel Labs. In ...

Ever wonder why packaging a Python app and its dependencies as a single executable is such a pain? Blame it on the dynamism ...

Every few years or so, a development in computing results in a sea change and a need for specialized workers to take advantage of the new technology. Whether that’s COBOL in the 60s and 70s, HTML in ...