Pyodide

JupyterLite uses Pyodide as a kernel to run Python code in the browser.

Overview

Pyodide is a Python distribution for the browser based on port of CPython to WebAssembly/Emscripten, enabling Python code execution directly in the browser. It includes a comprehensive set of Python packages and allows additional package installations from PyPI.

Dependencies installation

To install dependencies in Pyodide, the micropip package is used. Here's an example of how to install the numpy package:

import micropip

await micropip.install("numpy")

Note: Only pure Python packages are supported in Pyodide.

Example Usage

To understand the basics of using Pyodide user can refer to the interactive documentation below.

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