Microsoft for Python developers

Discover a suite of innovative tools, services, and resources tailored to elevate your Python development.

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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.

Visual Studio Code The lightweight, powerful and extensible editor, optimized for modern web and cloud applications. Learn more GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot uses AI to suggest entire functions in real-time, right from your editor. Work smarter. Learn more Azure The cloud platform designed to help you bring new solutions to life. Learn more Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Access the power of Windows and Linux at the same time on a Windows machine. Learn more Python on Windows Find the information and ideas you need to power your ingenuity. Learn more Python for education Unparalleled products and support for educators and students. Learn more
Products

Products for Python

 AI and machine learning Data and analytics Web and Cloud-native development Microsoft Agent FrameworkMicrosoft 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.Learn more Jupyter Notebooks in VS CodeCheck out this GitHub repo with Data Science for energy lab.Learn more VS Code AI ToolkitA 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.Learn more Azure ML for VS CodeDon't leave your VS Code editor when managing Azure Machine Learning resources, training models, debugging ML experiments and schema-based language support.Learn more Azure Cosmos DBCosmos DB code gallery is your best source for patterns and content for Azure Cosmos DB.Learn more Azure OpenAI ServiceBuild your own copilot and generative AI applications.Learn more Azure Python SDKA collection of libraries built to make it easier to use Azure services.Learn more Azure Data FactorySimplify hybrid data integration at enterprise scale.Learn more Data Wrangler VS CodeA code-centric data viewing and cleaning tool that is integrated into VS Code and VS Code Jupyter Notebooks.Learn more MarkItDownPython tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.Learn more PlaywrightSee how Playwright's cross-browser, cross-platform open-source framework enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern Python web apps.Learn more Awesome AZDAn awesome list that curates content and templates for the Azure Developer CLI.Learn more Dev containersA full-featured development environment with a well-defined tool and runtime stack.Learn more
Customer stories

Customer success with Python

Learn how teams around the world are using our tools to augment their workflows.

Square Enix uses Azure OpenAI Service for AI-enhanced game development

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Zooniverse's move to Azure enhances citizen science

 Azure Cache for Redis Azure DNS Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure Front Door Read more

Dentsu reduces time to media insights by 90% using Azure AI

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Learn

Learn with Python

Using GitHub Copilot with Python GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code in Python. Get started now Explore and analyze data with Python Data exploration and analysis are at the core of data science. Data scientists require skills in programming languages like Python to explore, visualize, and manipulate data. Get started now Using advanced GitHub Copilot features Use advanced GitHub Copilot features with a Python application. Get started now Build a minigame with GitHub Copilot and Python Demonstrate your ability to analyze, create, and use different methods to develop a console minigame in Python with GitHub. Get started now
Repositories

On GitHub

Some of our most popular open-source Python libraries and tools.

Pyright Pyright is a full-featured, standards-based static type checker for Python. It is designed for high performance and can be used with large Python source bases. Get the code MarkItDown MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines. Get the code PyRIT Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT) is an open-source framework built to empower security professionals and engineers to proactively identify risks in generative AI systems. Get the code Microsoft Agent Framework A framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET. Get the code BitNet bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (for example, BitNet b1.58). Get the code GraphRAG The GraphRAG project is a data pipeline and transformation suite that is designed to extract meaningful, structured data from unstructured text using the power of LLMs. Get the code Azure Command-Line Interface A great cloud needs great tools; we're excited to introduce Azure CLI, our next generation multi-platform command-line experience for Azure. Get the code Azure SDK for Python This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python. Get the code Playwright for Python Playwright is a Python library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers with a single API. Playwright delivers automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. Get the code

Recent Python blog posts

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Pylance + Pyrefly: bring your preferred type checker to Visual Studio Code

Announcing the Type Server Protocol and our partnership with Meta The post Pylance + Pyrefly: bring your preferred type checker to Visual Studio Code appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.

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