diff --git a/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/default.nix
index 219fe341d0b6..dd1bb0ad1244 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/default.nix
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ let
   inherit (vscode-utils) buildVscodeMarketplaceExtension;
 in
 #
-# Unless there is a good reason not to, we attemp to use the same name as the 
+# Unless there is a good reason not to, we attempt to use the same name as the
 # extension's unique identifier (the name the extension gets when installed
 # from vscode under `~/.vscode`) and found on the marketplace extension page.
-# So an extension's attribute name should be of the form: 
+# So an extension's attribute name should be of the form:
 # "${mktplcRef.publisher}.${mktplcRef.name}".
 #
 rec {
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ rec {
   };
 
   ms-vscode.cpptools = callPackage ./cpptools {};
-  
+
   ms-python.python = callPackage ./python {};
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/python/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/python/default.nix
index db6826b2d7e8..a2d04edea19f 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/python/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/python/default.nix
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ vscode-utils.buildVscodeMarketplaceExtension {
   mktplcRef = {
     name = "python";
     publisher = "ms-python";
-    version = "2018.8.0";
-    sha256 = "1x1wkqbc0d6h5w2m5qczv6gd5j6yrzhwp0c6wk49bhg2l0ibvyx6";
+    version = "2018.9.1";
+    sha256 = "050r1rb0xyfikfa6iq741s368xz600pqdk74w6cxszxpy8kl2hng";
   };
 
   postPatch = ''