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Re:Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAs... by almostgotcaught on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:39PM (#45362798)
not true

    pyodide venv .venv-pyodide
    source .venv-pyodide/bin/activate
I don't know what runtime it uses but I have tests in nightly CI that run exactly like this.

see https://pyodide.org/en/stable/development/building-packages-...

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Re:Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAs... by simonw on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:43PM (#45362851)
Interesting - I hadn't seen that before:

> Pyodide provides an experimental command line runner for testing packages against Pyodide. Using it requires nodejs version 20 or newer.

Looks like it's a recent addition?

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Re:Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAs... by almostgotcaught on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:46PM (#45362890)
No clue - I added that CI job around 6 months ago.
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Re:Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAs... by simonw on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:49PM (#45362928)
I tracked it down to this PR from September 2022, so it's been around for a while: https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/pull/2976
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