Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

The popular and well-regarded Django framework has been around since 2005. It is compatible with any 2.x Python from 2.4 onward, though 2.7 is recommended.

Django is a long-standing fixture of the Python web development community. It provides out-of-the-box implementations of many features common to websites—database connectivity, user accounts and ...

Indeed, if Ruby on Rails speeds up Ruby-based Web development, Django could be considered “Python on a plane” for what it provides Python developers, one observer said.