Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is a plug-in for Visual Studio which supports programming with the Python language. It lets you bring your own Python interpreter, including CPython, IronPython, PyPy, and supports a broad range of features from editing with IntelliSense to interactive debugging, profiling, interactive REPLs with support for IPython, cross-platform and cross-language debugging support, and deployment to Microsoft Azure.
v2.1 [Oct 23, 2014]
- PTVS is now installable in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web and Desktop editions! This also means that there will not be any more "PTVS Integrated" releases. The Express editions have all the features in the Integrated package and more. (Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is required.)
- Distinct colors for modules, classes, functions and parameters in the editor
- Templates for Bottle and Flask projects – as with Django, you can create Bottle & Flask project & easily publish to Azure
- Improved Microsoft Azure Cloud Service support, including worker role support
- Remote debugging for Microsoft Azure Web Sites
- Editing experience for Django templates on VS 2013:
- Full support for HTML5, CSS and JS
- CSS and JS syntax highlighting and IntelliSense
- Significantly improved HTML IntelliSense
- Helpers for installing and generating requirements.txt files with pip
- PyLint integration
- Debugger performance and stability improvements when working with large data sets
- pyproj files can now be edited manually to add build steps
- - Add a "CoreCompile" target to your project to enable building non-web projects inside VS
- Anaconda environments can now use 'conda install' from PTVS
- the standard string visualizers (HTML, XML, JSON) can now be used when debugging
- Along with many bug fixes and smaller features enhancements.
