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.
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.
Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code
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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.
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.
Azure Cosmos DB
Cosmos DB code gallery is your best source for patterns and content for Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure OpenAI Service
Build your own copilot and generative AI applications.
Azure Python SDK
A collection of libraries built to make it easier to use Azure services.
Azure Data Factory
Simplify hybrid data integration at enterprise scale.
Data Wrangler VS Code
A code-centric data viewing and cleaning tool that is integrated into VS Code and VS Code Jupyter Notebooks.
MarkItDown
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
Playwright
See how Playwright's cross-browser, cross-platform open-source framework enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern Python web apps.
Awesome AZD
An awesome list that curates content and templates for the Azure Developer CLI.
Dev containers
A full-featured development environment with a well-defined tool and runtime stack.
Build in the cloud with an Azure account
Get started creating, deploying, and managing applications—across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge—with scalable and cost-efficient Azure services.
Customer stories
Customer success with Python
Learn how teams around the world are using our tools to augment their workflows.
Learn
Learn with Python
Repositories
On GitHub
Some of our most popular open-source Python libraries and tools.
Recent Python blog posts
Vedha Ranganathan
• February 18, 2026
Python Environments Extension for VS Code
The February 2026 release This release includes the Python Environments extension... Keep on reading to learn more! The post Python Environments Extension for VS Code appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.