微软今天在Codeplex社区发布了一个测试版的Python工具PTVS(Python Tools for Visual Studio)，它可以在Visual Studio环境下运行，是一个开源和免费的VS2010插件。该插件可以让Python开发者运用到Visual Studio的一系列优势，而且全面照顾CPython和IronPython的习惯，除此之外还有新功能引入，例如部署高性能计算会变得更为方便。我试用了Python Tools for Visual Studio （PTVS）1.0 Beta 1并配置了两个引擎：Python 2.7和IronPython 2.7。安装PTVS后，VS对Python和IronPython代码支持智能完成、成员列表、设置断点、单步执行、性能剖析等功能。
主要功能：
- Advanced editing, Intellisense, browsing, “Find all”, REPL, …
- Supports CPython and IronPython
- Local & Cluster/remote debugging
- Profiling with multiple views
- Interactive parallel computing via integrated IPython REPL
- Support for HPC clusters and MPI, including debugging support
- NumPy & SciPy for .Net
- Support for Cloud Computing (soon)
- Support for Dryad (large scale, data-intensive parallel programming) (soon)
- Free & Open Source (Apache 2.0)