rwmark

Indeed, anything but VSCode:

"What data is collected. The GitHub Copilot collects activity from the user's Visual Studio Code editor, tied to a timestamp, and metadata."

PyCharm, Emacs, Vim, are all better and don't spy.

conda is developed by heretics and not the ideologically sound country club.

I wonder why VSCode is at least name-dropped in these Python setup tutorials lately. VSCode is spying on you and sending back "telemetry" data.

Given the current situation in Python, where there is little development, the old boys have totalitarian control, and new contributors are smart enough to avoid that mess:

Try out Rust, Go, Elixir or Lua instead. It might save you a lot of trouble. Heck, if you are willing to put in a lot of time to create carefully written objects, C++11 code can look a lot like Python (if you are into that).