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PyScript: Run Python in your HTML

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Resurfaced independently across 2 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2022–2024
peak thread · 145 comments
317 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-08-16
274 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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This uses Pyodide [0] under the hood [1], which is CPython compiled to WebAssembly. In all my tests of it, loading takes a long time ~5 seconds. Coldbrew [2], another distribution of CPython on Wasm, is another option with similar load times. And Brython [3] is a completely different option without long load time: a Python interpreter implemented in JavaScript. If load time is important, Brython is pretty nice. If feature completeness is important, Pyodide and Coldbrew are probably best…

For folks interested in seeing a usecase, I have a panel dashboard of Dallas crime statistics at: https://crimede-coder.com/graphs/Dallas_Dashboard Startup takes around a minute (which includes installing various python libraries + loading an external 5mb dataset). But once up and running it is quite responsive. (And works fine on my iphone.) Many businesses I work with use Tableau free versions, and just manually update the data (since the free doesn't allow direct connections to a datastore). This is a free…

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
596

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
210

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2022-04-30PyScript: Run Python in your HTMLFirst breakout · Best threadgripfx31765
2024-05-14MicroPython in WASMdiverted24750
2024-08-16PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browserLatest 20+ point returnxiaodai274145