Visual Studio 2022 support for python?

[wardh]

Hi,

I have installed Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 17.11.5

My questions are:

1. Python Version.

My questions are does this support Python Version 3.13. If not what is the highest version of Python it supports?

2. Installation.

What is the installation order?

After installing Visual Studio 2022. Add the Python support then install python. I assume there is some setting
change in the Visual Studio options as well.

Thanks

Ward

[menator01]

Yes it supports python3.13
What os are you using?
Generally I use a virtual environment when writing programs.
To get a virtual environment After opening the vscodium and create a folder for the project
ctrl+shift+p will bring up a prompt start typing env and it will pull up select env. after selecting the env
it will ask for a python version. All version on the os should be in the list.

[deanhystad]

Programming python in visual studio is painful. Visual studio code, a completely different IDE is a far better platform.

[wardh]

Hi menator01 and deanhystad,

Thanks for your responses. As I am more experienced with Visual Studio 2022 from a C# point of view - I am curious on why
Visual Studio Code would be better for Python.

One of the things I like about Visual Studio was the way it handles debugging and multi file projects and refactoring.

Feel free to sell me the advantages :)

I am curious if VS code would give me all these things?

Thanks

Ward.

[deanhystad]

I use Visual Studio for C# and C++, so when I started learning Python I originally used Visual Studio. It was by far the worst IDE for working with python. Even IDLE was better. I looked at it again about 3 years ago. It was much improved, but still far behind VS Code and PyCharm. It is hard to point to specific reasons why, but I just like everything about writing Python in Visual Studio less than other IDE's I've used. I just sort of gets in the way of what I'm trying to do instead of helping.

VS code has everything you mention you like about Visual Studio and the interface will be familiar to you.

[MancyHenry]

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (17.11.5) should support Python 3.13 if it is officially released, as Visual Studio regularly updates its Python workload to support newer versions However, if Python 3.13 is very recent or still in development, you may need to check for compatibility updates or install the latest Visual Studio version.

buran write Mar-24-2025, 04:09 AM:
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[Larz60+]

I also use Visual Studio Code and have for the past several years.
This is not the same as Visual Studio (which I have used in the past for 'C' and 'C++' programming.