


The Community edition is for individual developers, classroom learning, academic research, and open source development. If you have Visual Studio installed already, run the Visual Studio Installer, select the Modify option (see Modify Visual Studio) and go to step 2. :::Moniker range="vs-2019" Visual Studio 2019ĭownload and run the latest Visual Studio installer. Python support isn't presently available in Visual Studio for Mac, but is available on Mac and Linux through Visual Studio Code. The Python workload includes the helpful Cookiecutter extension that provides a graphical user interface to discover templates, input template options, and create projects and files. If you don't see the output of 4, recheck your steps. To quickly test Python support after following the installation steps, open the Python Interactive window by pressing Alt+ I and entering 2+2.

To install Python support for Visual Studio (also known as Python Tools for Visual Studio or PTVS), follow the instructions in the section that matches your version of Visual Studio: How to install Python support in Visual Studio on Windows
