Python
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Python language support with extension access points for IntelliSense (Pylance), Debugging (Python Debugger), linting, formatting, refactoring, unit tests, and more.
Tracked since 5 Sept 2026
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 25 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Where Python ranks in search
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
#12 on Marketplace for “linters”, #101 on Open VSX.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| debuggers | #38of 1,519 | #150of 514↓5 7d |
| linters | #12of 591 | #101of 431↓3 7d |
12 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
- Installs
- 238M+0.4% 7d
- Rating
- 4.2from 630 ratings
- Rank in Debuggers
- #1of 2,742
- Latest
- v2026.7.202609230123 Sept 2026
1,076 releases · 150 reviews across both stores · first published Jan 2016
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
- Downloads
- 59.1M+1.1% 7d
- Rating
- 3.88from 16 reviews
- Rank in Data Science
- #1of 413
- Latest
- v2026.4.013 Mar 2026
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
What the publisher says
Python’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to Open VSX.