make visual studio ready for python programming visual studio is mainly for windows macos version of visual studio do existsbut it has lot less features than the windows edition note that python support is available only on visual studio for windows if you use mac and linuxyou need to use visual studio code you could say visual studio code is down-scaled version of visual studio visual studio (from )has integrated support for pythonit is called "python support in visual studioeven if it is integratedyou need to manually select which components you want to install on your computer make sure to download and run the latest visual studio installer for windows when you run the visual studio installer (either for the first time or if you already have installed visual studio and want to modify itthe window shown in figure pops up the installer presents you with list of so called workloadswhich are groups of related options for specific development areas for pythonselect the "python developmentworkload and select install (figure python interactive to quickly test python supportlaunch visual studiopress alt+ (or select from the menutools python python interactive windowto open the python interactive window see figure lets write something like this