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PTVS

Python Tools for Visual Studio

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2.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Python Tools for Visual Studio

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

From personal experience, I've used both I have to say: Python Tools for Visual Studio is one of Microsoft's "best kept secrets" is how I describe it. I would say they're both…

giancarlostoro used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:56:55 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year22 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-04-16 00:23:37 UTC to 2025-08-22 02:50:08 UTC.

024682015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
int_19h·Jun 10, 2017
> They strictly kept any sort of code or logic out of XAML, annoyingly so to the point where you are writing converter classes to negate an expression For what it's worth, WPF does provide sufficient flexibility that it's possible to add support for expression-driven converters using markup extensions and an MSBuild task for compile-time codegen. Have a look at this: https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/blob/ebfc4ca8bab234d453f15... It can also be used completely inline, i.e.: <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name, Converter={ext:Lambda 'x => x.ToUpper()'}"/> This is the codegen step that extracts those lambdas from XAML and processes them: https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/blob/6bf34d3611d34e94eddb6... and this is the helper classes that are used in its output: https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/tree/6bf34d3611d34e94eddb6... Note that it's lan
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guage-agnostic; or rather, it uses the same language for expressions that the project itself does (so long as that language has a CodeDOM provider).
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