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<py-script>

The <py-script> element lets you execute multi-line Python scripts both inline and via a src attribute.

Attributes

attribute type default description
src url Url to a python source file.

Examples

Inline <py-script> element:

Let's execute this multi-line Python script to compute π and print it back onto the page

<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://pyscript.net/latest/pyscript.css" />
    <script defer src="https://pyscript.net/latest/pyscript.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
      <py-script>
        print("Let's compute π:")
        def compute_pi(n):
            pi = 2
            for i in range(1,n):
                pi *= 4 * i ** 2 / (4 * i ** 2 - 1)
            return pi

        pi = compute_pi(100000)
        s = f"π is approximately {pi:.3f}"
        print(s)
      </py-script>
  </body>
</html>

Using <py-script> element with src attribute:

we can also move our python code to its own file and reference it via the src attribute.

# compute_pi.py
print("Let's compute π:")
def compute_pi(n):
    pi = 2
    for i in range(1,n):
        pi *= 4 * i ** 2 / (4 * i ** 2 - 1)
    return pi

pi = compute_pi(100000)
s = f"π is approximately {pi:.3f}"
print(s)

Since both compute_pi.py and index.html are in the same directory, we can reference the python file with a relative path.

<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://pyscript.net/latest/pyscript.css" />
    <script defer src="https://pyscript.net/latest/pyscript.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
      <py-script src="compute_pi.py"></py-script>
  </body>
</html>

Writing into labeled elements

In the example above, we had a single <py-script> tag printing one or more lines onto the page in order. Within the <py-script>, you can use the Element class to create a python object for interacting with page elements. Objects created from the Element class provide the .write() method which enables you to send strings into the page elements referenced by those objects.

For example, we'll add some style elements and provide placeholders for the <py-script> tag to write to.

<html>
    <head>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://pyscript.net/latest/pyscript.css" />
      <script defer src="https://pyscript.net/latest/pyscript.js"></script>
      <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" crossorigin="anonymous">
    </head>

  <body>
    <b><p>Today is <u><label id='today'></label></u></p></b>
    <br>
    <div id="pi" class="alert alert-primary"></div>
    <py-script>
      import datetime as dt
      Element('today').write(dt.date.today().strftime('%A %B %d, %Y'))

      def compute_pi(n):
          pi = 2
          for i in range(1,n):
              pi *= 4 * i ** 2 / (4 * i ** 2 - 1)
          return pi

      pi = compute_pi(100000)
      Element('pi').write(f'π is approximately {pi:.3f}')
    </py-script>
  </body>
</html>