[Python] VS Code Comment Toggle Behaviour Unexpected: Adds and removes comments, does not swap...

I have tried looking this up but I only find answers related to getting the toggle command to work at all, not about the specific issue I have.

I was previously using Notepad++. For Python, when I would toggle the comment of two lines simultaneously, I would get the following behaviour:

# Line 1
Line 2


After toggle:

Line 1
# Line 2


Future toggles alternate between the two states above.

I have not found a way to do this in VS Code (Ctrl + / ). The behaviour I see is

# Line 1
Line 2


After toggle:

# # Line 1
# Line 2


Toggle again:

# Line 1
Line 2


The behaviour of Notepad++ is quite useful, but I can't find any discussion of it or how to get VSCode to behave similarly. The VSCode way is not useless, but the Notepad++ version is much more useful as I can always just use a comment command if I want to simply add a comment and not swap which lines are commented.

Does anyone know how I can replicate the Notepad++ behaviour in VSCode?

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