pyodide/docs/js-api/pyodide_pyimport.md

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pyodide.pyimport(name)

Access a Python object in the global namespace from Javascript.

For example, to access the foo Python object from Javascript:

var foo = pyodide.pyimport('foo')

Parameters

name	type	description
names	String	Python variable name

Returns

name	type	description
object	any	If one of the basic types (string, number, boolean, array, object), the Python object is converted to Javascript and returned. For other types, a Proxy object to the Python object is returned.