The December 2023 update to Python in Visual Studio Code introduces several new features, including configurable debugging options that are now available on the Run button menu.

But even when I was learning Python, for instance, the interactive mode didn't help me that much in understanding the strange result my method was returning; the debugger did.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop functionality.