Microsoft has released the May 2020 update for its Python extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its popular open-source, cross-platform code editor. Users should update the extension to ...

For the operating system to understand that the file should be read as a Python program, the programmer needs to save the file as a Python file, with the ".py" extension.

When Python for Windows is installed, it will associate the .pyzw file extension with the Python executable, causing Python to execute the scripts automatically when the file is double-clicked.