Even so, the Experimental - Python for the Web (Preview) extension in the VS Code Marketplace has been installed 283 times as of this writing (see screenshot above). The item description lists the ...

News VS Code Python Team Improves Interactive REPL By David Ramel 11/02/2023 Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's ...

Python's popularity is also borne out by downloads of the Python extension for Microsoft's VS Code, one of the most popular code editors on the market.