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About the Project
The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly.
Pyodide brings the Python runtime to the browser via WebAssembly, along with the Python scientific stack including NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, parts of SciPy, and NetworkX. The packages directory lists over 75 packages which are currently available. In addition it's possible to install pure Python wheels from PyPi.
Pyodide provides transparent conversion of objects between Javascript and Python. When used inside a browser, Python has full access to the Web APIs.
History
Pyodide was created in 2018 by Michael Droettboom at Mozilla as part of the iodide project, a set of experiments around scientific computing and communication for the web.
At present Pyodide is an independent and community driven open-source project.
The decision making process is outlined in the {ref}project governance <project-governance>.
Pyodide may be used standalone in any context where you want to run Python
inside a web browser.
Infrastructure support
We would also like to thank,
- Mozilla and CircleCl for Continuous Integration resources
- JsDelivr for providing a CDN for pyodide packages
- ReadTheDocs for hosting the documentation.