PythonAnywhere is an online

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(IDE) and

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Platform as a service Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) or platform-based service is a category of cloud computing services that allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a modular bundle comprising a computin ...

) based on the

Python programming language Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically-typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming p ...

. Founded by Giles Thomas and Robert Smithson in 2012, it provides in-browser access to server-based Python and

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command-line interface A command-line interpreter or command-line processor uses a command-line interface (CLI) to receive commands from a user in the form of lines of text. This provides a means of setting parameters for the environment, invoking executables and pro ...

s, along with a code editor with

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. Program files can be transferred to and from the service using the user's browser. Web applications hosted by the service can be written using any

WSGI The Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI, pronounced ''whiskey'' or ) is a simple calling convention for web servers to forward requests to web applications or frameworks written in the Python programming language. The current version of WSGI, v ...

-based application framework. PythonAnywhere was created by Resolver Systems, who also produced

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, a Python-based

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program. On 16 October 2012 the product was acquired by a new company, PythonAnywhere LLP, who will develop and maintain the product in the future, and have taken on the existing development team. In June, 2022, PythonAnywhere was acquired by Anaconda, Inc. The development team uses PythonAnywhere to develop PythonAnywhere, and say that its collaboration features help because they use the

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methodology.

Features

CPython CPython is the reference implementation of the Python (programming language), Python programming language. Written in C (programming language), C and Python, CPython is the default and most widely used implementation of the Python language. CP ...

PyPy PyPy () is an implementation of the Python programming language. PyPy often runs faster than the standard implementation CPython because PyPy uses a just-in-time compiler. Most Python code runs well on PyPy except for code that depends on CPytho ...

and

IPython IPython (Interactive Python) is a command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages, originally developed for the Python programming language, that offers introspection, rich media, shell syntax, tab completion, and histo ...

support, including Python versions 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. * In-browser interactive consoles with code running on hosted servers, shareable between multiple users. * WSGI-based web hosting, e.g. Django,

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web2py Web2py is an open-source web application framework written in the Python programming language. Web2py allows web developers to program dynamic web content using Python. Web2py is designed to help reduce tedious web development tasks, such a ...

* Support for coding from

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and other mobile devices. * Syntax-highlighting in-browser editor. * Many popular Python modules pre-installed. *

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-like scheduled tasks to run scripts at a given time of day. * Always-on tasks to run scripts and restart them automatically when they fail.

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PythonAnywhere is described as "the simplest way to deploy

applications" in the official book on the web framework, is suggested when learning numpy, is deployment platform of choice in

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tutorial, and is recommended as a way of hosting

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-based web applications.

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PythonAnywhere Homepage

PythonAnywhere Wiki
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