Python with PyDev on Visual Studio Code

PyDev can now be used for Python development on Visual Studio Code!

The first release already provides features such as code analysis, code completion, go to definition, symbols for the workspace and editor, code formatting, find references, quick fixes and more (see http://www.pydev.org/vscode/ for details).

All features have a strong focus on speed and have been shaped by the usage on PyDev over the last 14 years, so, I believe it's already pretty nice to use... there are still some big things to integrate (such as the PyDev debugger), but those should come on shortly.

The requisites are having java 8 (or higher) installed on the system (if it doesn't find it automatically the java home location may need to be specified in the settings -- http://www.pydev.org/vscode/ has more details) and Python 2.6 or newer.

By default it should pick the python executable available on the PATH, but it's possible to specify a different python executable through the settings on VSCode (see http://www.pydev.org/vscode/settings.html for details).

Below, I want to share some of the things that are unique in PyDev and are now available for VSCode users:

• Niceties from PyDev when typing such as auto-adding self where needed (note that having the editor.formatOnType setting turned on is a requisite for that to work).
• Really fast code-completion, code-analysis and code-formatting engines.
• Code completion provides options to import modules, top level classes, methods and variables (python.pydev.preferredImportLocation can be used to determine the location of the import).
• Quick fix which automatically allows adding an import for unresolved symbols.
• In-file navigation to previous or next class or method through Ctrl+Shift+Up and Ctrl+Shift+Down.

Now, the extension itself is not currently open source as PyDev... my target is making the best Python development environment around and all earnings will go towards that (as a note, all improvements done to PyDev itself will still be open source, so, most earnings from PyDev on VSCode will go toward open source development).

Enjoy!