#391: Pyscript powered by MicroPython

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

No Python announcement of 2022 was met with more fanfare than pyscript. This project, announced at PyCon 2022, allows you to write Python files and run them in your browser in place of JavaScript or even with interactions between Python and JavaScript. There was just one catch: The runtime download was a 9MB WebAssembly file. That made its uses quite limited.

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0:00.0	No Python announcement of 2022 was met with more fanfare than Pyscript.
0:04.7	This project announced that PyCon allows you to write Python files and run them in your browser
0:09.7	in place of JavaScript or even with interactions between Python and JavaScript.
0:15.5	There's just one catch.
0:17.0	The runtime download was a 9 megabyte web assembly file.
0:22.8	That made its use quite limited.
0:28.8	On this episode, we dive into some news that might change that calculus. The Micropython and Pyscript folks have been teaming up to get Pyscript running in the browser on Micropython.
0:34.3	Yes, that's the embedded chip Python that you may have heard of. And here's the good
0:39.1	news. MicroPython's WebAssembly is just 300k to download and loads it under 100 milliseconds.
0:45.3	Now that could unlock some real possibilities. We have Brett Cannon, Nicholas Tollave, and Fabio Plager,
0:51.7	on the show to discuss. This is Talk Python, me, episode 391,
0:56.6	recorded November 21st, 2022. Welcome to Talk Python, a weekly podcast on Python.
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