Python

An extension with rich support for the Python language (including Python 3.6), with features including the following and more:

Linting (Prospector, Pylint, pycodestyle/Pep8, Flake8, pylama, pydocstyle with config files and plugins)
Intellisense (autocompletion with support for PEP-0484 and PEP 526)
Auto indenting
Code formatting (autopep8, yapf, with config files)
Code refactoring (Rename, Extract Variable, Extract Method, Sort Imports)
Viewing references, code navigation, view signature
Excellent debugging support (remote debugging over SSH, mutliple threads, django, flask)
Running and debugging Unit tests (unittest, pytest, nosetests, with config files)
Execute file or code in a python terminal
Local help file (offline documentation)
Snippets

Quick Start

Install the extension
optionally install ctags for Workspace Symbols, from here, or using brew install ctags on OSX.
If Python is in the current path
- You're ready to use it.
To select a different Python Interpreter/Version (or use Virtual Environment), use the command Select Workspace Interpreter)

For further information and details continue through to the documentation.

Contributions are always welcome. Fork it, modify it and create a pull request.
- Details on contributing can be found here
Any and all feedback is appreciated and welcome.
- Please feel free to add suggestions here

Ability to include custom module paths (e.g. include paths for libraries like Google App Engine, etc.)
Use the setting python.autoComplete.extraPaths = []
For instance getting autocomplete/intellisense for Google App Engine, add the following to your settings file:

"python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [
    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/google_appengine",
    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/google_appengine/lib" ]

It can be turned off (default is to be turned on and use pylint)
Multiple linters supported (along with support for configuration files for each linter)
Supported linters include pylint, pep8, flake8, pydocstyle, prospector
Paths to each of the linters can be optionally configured
Custom plugins such as pylint plugin for Django can be easily used by modifying the settings as follows:

"python.linting.pylintArgs": ["--load-plugins", "pylint_django"]

Watch window
Evaluate Expressions
Step through code (Step in, Step out, Continue)
Add/remove break points
Local variables and arguments
Multiple Threads and Web Applications (such as Flask, Django, with template debugging)
Expanding values (viewing children, properties, etc)
Conditional break points
Remote debugging (over SSH)
Google App Engine
Debugging in the integrated or external terminal window

Provide details of error with solution for changes to syntax in launch.json #1047, #1025
Provide a warning about known issues with having pyenv.cfg whilst debugging #913
Create .vscode directory if not found #1043
Highlighted text due to linter errors is off by one column #965, #970
Added preminary support for WSL Bash and Cygwin #1049
Ability to configure the linter severity levels #941, #895
Fixes to unit tests #1051, #1050
Outdent lines following contibue, break and return #1050
Change location of cache for Jedi files #1035
Fixes to the way directories are searched for Python interpreters #569, #1040
Handle outputs from Python packages that interfere with the way autocompletion is handled #602