The December 2023 update to Python in Visual Studio Code introduces several new features, including configurable debugging options that are now available on the Run button menu.

I.e., statement-level problems. As a professional programmer, I use the debugger much more than I use a REPL, but that's because I know my bread and butter language pretty well.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop functionality.