Microsoft for Python developers

Discover a suite of innovative tools, services, and resources tailored to elevate your Python development.

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Cloud and AI developer tools

From Azure's powerful cloud solutions to our cutting-edge AI frameworks, Microsoft offers everything you need to build, deploy, and scale your Python projects seamlessly.

Products for Python

AI and machine learning Data and analytics Web and Cloud-native development Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source development kit for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows for .NET and Python. It brings together and extends ideas from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects, combining their strengths while adding new capabilities.

Learn more Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code

Check out this GitHub repo with Data Science for energy lab.

Learn more VS Code AI Toolkit

A VS Code extension that simplifies generative AI app development by bringing together cutting-edge AI development tools and models from Azure AI Foundry Catalog and other catalogs like Hugging Face.

Learn more Azure ML for VS Code

Don't leave your VS Code editor when managing Azure Machine Learning resources, training models, debugging ML experiments and schema-based language support.

Learn more Azure Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB code gallery is your best source for patterns and content for Azure Cosmos DB.

Learn more Azure OpenAI Service

Build your own copilot and generative AI applications.

Learn more Azure Python SDK

A collection of libraries built to make it easier to use Azure services.

Learn more Azure Data Factory

Simplify hybrid data integration at enterprise scale.

Learn more Data Wrangler VS Code

A code-centric data viewing and cleaning tool that is integrated into VS Code and VS Code Jupyter Notebooks.

Learn more MarkItDown

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

Learn more Playwright

See how Playwright's cross-browser, cross-platform open-source framework enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern Python web apps.

Learn more Awesome AZD

An awesome list that curates content and templates for the Azure Developer CLI.

Learn more Dev containers

A full-featured development environment with a well-defined tool and runtime stack.

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Build in the cloud with an Azure account

Get started creating, deploying, and managing applications—across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge—with scalable and cost-efficient Azure services.

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Customer success with Python

Learn how teams around the world are using our tools to augment their workflows.

Square Enix uses Azure OpenAI Service for AI-enhanced game development

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Zooniverse's move to Azure enhances citizen science

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Dentsu reduces time to media insights by 90% using Azure AI

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Learn with Python

Using GitHub Copilot with Python

GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code in Python.

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Data exploration and analysis are at the core of data science. Data scientists require skills in programming languages like Python to explore, visualize, and manipulate data.

Get started now Using advanced GitHub Copilot features

Use advanced GitHub Copilot features with a Python application.

Get started now Build a minigame with GitHub Copilot and Python

Demonstrate your ability to analyze, create, and use different methods to develop a console minigame in Python with GitHub.

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On GitHub

Some of our most popular open-source Python libraries and tools.

Pyright

Pyright is a full-featured, standards-based static type checker for Python. It is designed for high performance and can be used with large Python source bases.

Get the code MarkItDown

MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines.

Get the code PyRIT

Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT) is an open-source framework built to empower security professionals and engineers to proactively identify risks in generative AI systems.

Get the code Microsoft Agent Framework

A framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET.

Get the code BitNet

bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (for example, BitNet b1.58).

Get the code GraphRAG

The GraphRAG project is a data pipeline and transformation suite that is designed to extract meaningful, structured data from unstructured text using the power of LLMs.

Get the code Azure Command-Line Interface

A great cloud needs great tools; we're excited to introduce Azure CLI, our next generation multi-platform command-line experience for Azure.

Get the code Azure SDK for Python

This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python.

Get the code Playwright for Python

Playwright is a Python library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers with a single API. Playwright delivers automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

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Recent Python blog posts

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