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{{Short description|Online IDE and web hosting service}}

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{{Infobox software

| name = PythonAnywhere

| logo = [[File:PythonAnywhere_logo.png|180px|PythonAnywhere logo]]

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| developer = PythonAnywhereAnaconda, LLPInc

| programming language = [[Python (programming language)|Python]]

| operating system = {{hlist| [[Cross-platform]] /| [[HTML5]] }}

| genre = {{hlist| [[Integrated development environment]], | [[Web hosting service]] }}

| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]

| website = {{URL|http://www.pythonanywhere.com/}}

| author = {{UBL| Giles Thomas | Robert Smithson }}

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'''PythonAnywhere''' is an online [[Integratedintegrated Developmentdevelopment Environmentenvironment]] (IDE) and [[Webweb hosting service]] ([[Platform as a service]]) based on the [[Python (programming language)|Python programming language]].<ref>{{cite web|title=PythonAnywhere: un ambiente Python nel proprio browser|publisher=html.it

|url=http://blog.html.it/10/05/2012/pythonanywhere-un-ambiente-python-nel-proprio-browser/}}</ref> ItFounded by Giles Thomas and [[Robert Smithson (finance)|Robert Smithson]] in 2012, it provides in-browser access to server-based Python and [[Bash (Unix shell)|Bash]] [[Commandcommand-line interface]]s, along with a code editor with [[Syntaxsyntax highlighting]]. 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 [[Web Server Gateway Interface|WSGI]]-based application framework.

PythonAnywhere was created by Resolver Systems,<ref>{{cite web|title=Products - Resolver Systems|publisher=Resolver Systems|url=http://www.resolversystems.com/products/|access-date=2012-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717025809/http://www.resolversystems.com/products/|archive-date=2014-07-17|url-status=dead}}</ref> who also produced [[Resolver One]], a Python-based [[Spreadsheet]] program. On 16 October 2012 the product was acquired by a new company, PythonAnywhere LLP, who took on the existing development team.<ref>{{cite web|title=Resolver Systems News: Acquisition|publisher=Resolver Systems|url=http://www.resolversystems.com/news/?p=288|access-date=2012-11-22|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201035007/http://www.resolversystems.com/news/?p=288|archive-date=2013-02-01|url-status=dead}}</ref> In June, 2022, PythonAnywhere was acquired by Anaconda, Inc.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anaconda acquires PythonAnywhere in a bid to improve Python accessibility|publisher=ITPro

PythonAnywhere was created by Resolver Systems,<ref>{{cite web|title=Products - Resolver Systems|publisher=Resolver Systems

|url=https://www.itpro.com/development/programming/368350/anaconda-acquires-pythonanywhere-in-bid-to-improve-accessibility}}</ref>

|url=http://www.resolversystems.com/products/}}</ref> who also produced [[Resolver One]], a Python-based [[Spreadsheet]] 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Resolver Systems News: Acquisition|publisher=Resolver Systems

|url=http://www.resolversystems.com/news/?p=288}}</ref>

The development team useuses PythonAnywhere to develop PythonAnywhere, and say that its collaboration features help because they use the [[Extremeextreme Programmingprogramming]] methodology.<ref>{{cite web|title=Installation-Free Programming in the Cloud|publisher=Develop in the Cloud|url=http://developinthecloud.drdobbs.com/author.asp?section_id=2280&doc_id=246506&|access-date=2012-07-12|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121194316/http://developinthecloud.drdobbs.com/author.asp?section_id=2280&doc_id=246506&|archive-date=2013-01-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>

|url=http://developinthecloud.drdobbs.com/author.asp?section_id=2280&doc_id=246506&}}</ref>

==Features==

* '''[[CPython]]''', '''[[PyPy]]''' and '''[[IPython]]''' support, including Python versions 23.79, 3.310, 3.411, 3.512 and 3.613 (plus some older deprecated versions).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/PythonVersions|title=Supported Python versions on PythonAnywhere}}</ref>

* '''In-browser interactive consoles''' with code running on hosted servers, shareable between multiple users.

* '''WSGI-based web hosting''', e.g. [[Django (web framework)|Django]], [[Flask (web framework)|Flask]], [[web2py]]

* '''Support for coding from [[iPad]]''' and other mobile devices.

* Syntax-highlighting in-browser editor.

* Many popular Python modules pre-installed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pythonanywhere.com/batteries_included/|title = Batteries included: PythonAnywhere}}</ref>

* [[Cron]]-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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/AlwaysOnTasks/|title = Always-on tasks|date = 13 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/172/|title=Always-on tasks - PythonAnywhere News}}</ref>

==Uses==

PythonAnywhere is described as "the simplest way to deploy [[web2py]] applications" in the official book on the web framework,<ref name="Pierro2013">{{cite book|author=Massimo Di Pierro|title=web2py (5th Edition)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vB2-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA568|year=2013|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-0-578-12021-8|pages=568–|edition=5th}}</ref> is suggested when learning [[numpyNumPy]],<ref name="Idris2015">{{cite book|author=Ivan Idris|title=NumPy Cookbook - Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWHCCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|date=29 April 2015|publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-78439-982-5|pages=85–}}</ref> is deployment platform of choice in [[Django Girls]] tutorial,<ref>{{cite web|title=Django Girls Tutorial: Deploy!|publisher=Django Girls
|url=https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/deploy/}}</ref> and is recommended as a way of hosting [[machine learning]]-based web applications.<ref name="Raschka2015">{{cite book|author=Sebastian Raschka|title=Python Machine Learning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOVOCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA272|date=23 September 2015|publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-78355-514-7|pages=272–}}</ref>

==See also==

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{{Cloud computing}}

{{Integrated development environments}}

[[Category:Python (programming language)]]

[[Category:Technology companies based in London]]