PythonAnywhere is an online Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Web hosting service based on the Python programming language. It provides in-browser access to server-based Python (various versions) and Bash Command-line interfaces, along with a code editor with Syntax highlighting. Program files can be transferred to and from the service using Dropbox or via the user's browser. Web applications hosted by the service can be written using any WSGI-based application framework.
PythonAnywhere was created and is maintained by Resolver Systems, who also produce Resolver One, a Python-based Spreadsheet program.
Features
- CPython, PyPy and IPython support, including Python versions 2.7 and 3.2
- In-browser interactive consoles with code running on hosted servers, shareable between multiple users.
- Syntax-highlighting in-browser editor.
- WSGI-based web hosting, eg. Django, Flask, web2py
- Support for coding from iPad and other mobile devices.
- Dropbox connectivity
- Many popular Python modules pre-installed
- Cron-like scheduled tasks to run scripts at a given time of day.