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I am using Visual Studio Code, and I am new to it. The theme is the dark one. My problem is when I am running python code, it doesn't show it is running and there is not a stop button. Doesn't VS Code have a stop button and a rerun button? Because if the code is running like a complex operation in a file, it doesn't show it is running. If there was the red square to stop, we would know it is running. Thanks

Peter Macej
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Dini
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    Does this answer your question? [How to execute Python code from within Visual Studio Code](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29987840/how-to-execute-python-code-from-within-visual-studio-code) – Thibault Cimic May 31 '23 at 07:20
  • how exactly are you running your program? launch config? task? integrated terminal? – starball May 31 '23 at 19:30
  • I use the play arrow to Run code, what I mean is that there isnt a stop button instead of using combination of keys. – Dini May 31 '23 at 20:09

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By default, a python script, ie a *.py file, is just a file with some text in it, and VScode, a text editor, is gonna open it as such. Meaning, when opening a python script with VScode, the python script is not "running".

As for "how to run a python script within VScode", there are already a lot of posts on this subject, here is one.

Or as for "how to debug python code with VScode", ie you'll have the options to stop the program with a stop button, put breakpoints etc..., there are already a lot of answers on the internet, for example this video.

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