Edge Computing with Cloudflare Workers
Bringing Python to Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly

Bringing Python to Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly

4/2/2024 · Hood Chatham, Garrett Gu, Dominik Picheta

What this post added

Introduced first-class Python support for Cloudflare Workers by integrating Pyodide directly into the workerd runtime. This enables Python code to run on the edge without external compilation steps, leveraging existing Workers bindings and a subset of popular Python packages. The integration utilizes Pyodide's Emscripten backend for dynamic linking and its Foreign Function Interface (FFI) to bridge Python and JavaScript, allowing seamless interaction with the Workers environment and its APIs.

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