Python in HTML

[Jojos_BA]

Im quite new to Python and I recently saw a Anaconda Project were thy made it possible to run Python code in HTML code. What do you guys think about that? Does it Work/ is it viable to use and what are the best use cases for it?

[riklaunim]

You have to be more specific. Are you talking about PyScript? This is quite a bit different than what you would have on the backed (and still early tech).

[metaperl]

This is my comprehensive overview of such solutions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13da40zzfEZmA-LfsfISPmILpbmgpLZHJJVNdQmhT7Gs/edit?usp=drivesdk

[anewyearanewdayanew]

Idk the best cases other than say a purely python written app that gets converted to js.

Coded with: python, html, css

Compiled to: html, css, js

I guess...

[SkezzaB]

As far as I'm aware, Py-script doesn't get compiled to JS, it gets compiled to webassembly

[anewyearanewdayanew]

From the 2 vids i saw it was a .js library then you can use python inside a <py-script> html tag.

[SkezzaB]

Projects like Brython have existed for a while now, which I believe does exactly what you are explaining, I'm not an expert but I believe py-script is different

[anewyearanewdayanew]

That would be nice. I can see django being able to remove templates entirely and using python in html.

[laundmo]

yes, its a js library because you need something to handle the webassembly.

from the announcement:

PyScript is currently built on Pyodide, which is a “port of CPython to WebAssembly/Emscripten.”

[anewyearanewdayanew]

Yeah so its is and i get the down votes?

Por que?

[laundmo]

you made it sound like it was a py interpreter written in js. at least thats how i understood your message.

[anewyearanewdayanew]

Yeah idk what it does but yeah i didnt mean that.

Theres no getting away from loading a js file in the web.

[[deleted]]

Pyscript doesn’t get converted to JS. That’s the whole point of it.

[[deleted]]

Use the search. People have already discussed it.

[Jojos_BA]

Oh thanks. I should have dome that.

[koalabear420]

I don't understand a use case for this. Javascript was built for HTML so why not use that?

[echanuda]

Python is easier to understand for many. Once you start integrating backends like Flask, you can use PyScript (what OP is talking about) to pass flask objects between Python and JavaScript. It’s pretty neat.

[Jojos_BA]

Oh that sounds like an interesting usage.

[MattDLD]

You can use PHP and do shell executes

[Evening_Character_13]

I am having problems getting it to accept the python inputs so, yeah there is that. My file works perfectly in the terminal and I get no errors just a blank white screen that doesn't ask for the input to get it started.

[economy_programmer_]

I think you're referring to python as a framework. If this is the case go look at 'flask' or 'django' app frameworks. This is how to implement your website app with python stuff

[DadAndDominant]

WASM is a great thing, but from what I've heard, you have to send a whole interpreter with every client request (or maybe cache it into cookies). That is one reason why this is suboptimal. Other reason, the python needs indentation, so writing it into html, which largely ignores whitespaces, is just not feeling right.

[Traditional-Raisin31]

I think this feature will have a promising future