April 2022 saw the return of the PyCon US conference in person in Salt Lake City. During the conference, Python developers met for the annual Language Summit, and Anaconda announced PyScript, a way to write Python directly inside HTML. Earlier in the month, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) welcomed its new executive director.
Read on to dive into the biggest Python news from the past month!
PyScript: Python in Your Browser
During his keynote at PyCon US, Anaconda CEO Peter Wang unveiled the PyScript project. PyScript allows you to write Python directly inside HTML and run it in your browser. Consider the following example:
<html><head><linkrel="stylesheet"href="https://pyscript.net/alpha/pyscript.css"/><scriptdefersrc="https://pyscript.net/alpha/pyscript.js"></script></head><body><py-script> print('Hello, World!') </py-script></body></html>Note the <py-script> tag, which can contain any valid Python code. In this case, this is the traditional Hello, World! greeting.
This is functioning code. You can copy the above code block into a file, such as hello.html, and save that file to your computer. Then you can open it in your browser, for example by using Ctrl+O or Cmd+O and selecting hello.html. Alternatively, you can test a similar example immediately on the PyScript demos page.
PyScript provides custom HTML tags, including <py-script>, which you saw above. There are several other tags as well, with many still in development. However, here are a couple that are immediately useful:
<py-env>lists packages that should be made available in the environment.<py-repl>creates a working Python REPL to interact with the environment.
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