Microsoft Visual Studio team today released the Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 RC. python tools for visual studio (PTVS) is an open-source plug-in for Visual Studio that supports programming with the Python language with features such as CPython/IronPython, editing, IntelliSense, interactive debugging, profiling, IPython REPL with inline graphics cross-platform/language debugging and running Python websites on Microsoft Azure with tooling integration for both publishing and debugging.
New in this release:
- Numerous bug fixes throughout the entire product, especially for IntelliSense and code completions, debugging, general stability and performance
- Search paths within a project are now used for IntelliSense
- django template debugging now works on Python 3.4
- anaconda environments can now use ‘conda install’ from PTVS
- The standard string visualizers (HTML, XML, JSON) can now be used when debugging
- brace highlight color can now be changed

