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Pyodide v0.27.0 is out. This release was focused on improving the long-term stability of Pyodide. Welcome Agriya Khetarpal to the Pyodide team Agriya Khetarpal has joined as a new maintainer. Agriya has been active in the Scientific Python area and is a contributor to NumPy, SciPy, and scikit-learn. He has already significantly strengthened Pyodide’s support for various Scientific Python packages. Build System Improvements Decoupling pyodide-build from Pyodide runtime pyodide-build is a tool that builds Python packages to run in Pyodide....

Hello, my name is Raul Andrial and I am a software engineer located in Miami, FL, USA. I created a proof of concept web app with Pyodide that allows users to use the pandas library without needing to code but can use code if they want to. The app uses a drag and drop interface. I also included functionality for plotting with matplotlib and linear regression using scikit-learn. You can read more about it here....

Pyodide v0.26.0 is out, including Python version 3.12, many minor improvements to the foreign function interface and to the build system, and major improvements to stack switching. It also includes a tremendous amount of foward-looking work that is not yet visible to users. Pyodide at PyCon We were at PyCon again this year at another WebAssembly summit. The authors of this post met each other in person for the first time....

We’re Akshay Agrawal and Myles Scolnick, and we’re the developers of marimo, an open-source reactive notebook for Python. In this post, we’ll describe how we ported marimo to work via Pyodide, and why we’re incredibly excited about the potential of Pyodide to make computing more accessible. What is marimo? marimo is an open-source reactive notebook for Python built from the ground up to solve well-known problems with traditional notebooks, including reproducibility, interactivity, maintainability, and shareability....

Happy New Year! Pyodide 0.25 is a major release with some exciting and experimental features. This major release includes requests library support, experimental support for JS Promise integration, and build system improvements. requests Support in Pyodide For a long time, the Pyodide community has been requesting support for the requests, Python’s popular HTTP client library. However, due to the limitations of Pyodide running in a browser environment, integrating networking libraries presented challenges....

Pyodide 0.24 is a major release focused on fine tuning public APIs and performance. It includes a major rework of the streams APIs to be faster and more flexible. We increased the consistency of the foreign function interface. We also added micropip support for the Python simple repository API. Performance Improvements Up to this point, we had not devoted much energy to performance improvements so there were many low-hanging fruit....

Pyodide 0.23 is a major release focused on updating CPython version to 3.11. It also brings several new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. This release includes updates to the Python standard library, deployment and build system enhancements, and new CLI commands. We also added several new packages to Pyodide, including fastparquet, pynacl and binary wheels for mypy. Note that there are several API deprecations; please refer to the changelog for details....

Pyodide 0.22 is a major release focused on improving the foreign function interface between Python and JavaScript. We also improved the systems for building, loading, and testing packages. In particular, we added support for creating virtual environments that execute code using Pyodide in Node.js. We unvendored the Pyodide package manager and matplotlib backend into separate repositories. We also added a new command line interface for common tasks involved in building and testing packages with Pyodide....

Pyodide 0.21 is a major release focused on improvements to the systems for building and loading packages. We made it much easier to build and use binary wheels that are not included in our distribution. We added support for Rust packages and made major progress in simplifying support for CMake packages. We also added 34 new packages including a large number of popular packages, for example bitarray, opencv-python, shapely, and xgboost....

Pandas Tutor is a data science education tool that visualizes how pandas code transforms dataframes. In this guest post we discuss how we ported it to run 100% in-browser with Pyodide.