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title: Azure tools for Python developers | Microsoft Docs
description: IDE integrations and command-line interfaces for Python developers working on Azure.
ms.topic: conceptual
ms.date: 06/21/2017
---

# Azure tools for Python developers

## Azure CLI 2.0

The Azure 2.0 CLI provides a command-line interface to create and configure Azure resources in your subscriptions. The Azure CLI 2.0 is cross-platform and has query and filtering features so you can pipe output directly to your favorite command-line tools.

[Install the Azure CLI 2.0](https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/install-azure-cli)

## Visual Studio Code
Python is fully supported in Visual Studio Code through extensions. Popular extensions in the Marketplace provide code completion, linting, debugging, code formatting, snippets, and more.

[Install Visual Studio Code and extensions](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python)

## Python tools for Visual Studio extension
Visual Studio on Windows provides open-source support for the Python language through the Python development and Data Science workloads (Visual Studio 2017) and the free Python Tools for Visual Studio extension (Visual Studio 2015 and earlier). 

[Install Python support in Visual Studio](https://docs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/python/installation)

## Azure Notebooks (Preview)
Azure Notebooks is a hosted service for Jupyter Notebooks that requires no installation. It enables you to get started quickly on prototyping, data science, academic research, or learning to program Python, R, and F#. You can combine code, markdown, images, videos, graphs, all in one format.

[Get started with Azure Notebooks](https://notebooks.azure.com/)