Those efforts continued in the latest regular monthly update for Python in VS Code, dubbed the October 2022 release, which features simplified project setup with a new command.

In the regular monthly update to Python tooling for Visual Studio Code, Microsoft announced an improved setup experience for Jupyter notebooks, along with new inlay type hints for the Pylance language ...

Microsoft updates its Python extension for VS Code with fixes for two security flaws and easier interpreter selection.

If you see Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 when Installing Python, then the setup tool on your computer might not be installed or updated.