You're most welcome! :)

Thank you Daniel. :)

Glad it was helpful!

It should be pretty possible with pyscript. I do think it has some maturing before it’s ready for prime time. But this little app does show what might be possible soon.

I don't think one tab's webassembly has access to another does it? Do you have a link with details on that?

You can't access other sites unless they're on the same domain and were created within the existing tab (like with window.open)

Hey Jim. Because I really wanted to show how to use pyscript with a JSON API. My experience using public free APIs is that they are fine for awhile then either go offline, change their schema in a breaking way, etc. Using Flask (or any dynamic server app) let's me ship something to people as part of the project to demo how to client/server comms without worrying about it only working for 6 months. But if you had another API already running somewhere, it's definitely not needed, right? :)

@@mikeckennedy Using Flask here is missing the point altogether. If you control the server runtime, you don't need pyscript. Pyscript is for when you want to use static hosting.

@@vcool What? It doesn't miss the point *at all*. Here is the point. I want to create a client-side pyscript app. I want that app to consume an API. I want that API to be stable. Hence, I shipped the app with a stable API in the form of the Flask app. In a "real" version, it would point at openweathermap.org or something like that. But this requires people playing with the app to register, create an account, enter API keys, etc. etc. That's useless, so why don't I make that simple. In a real app, you would use a real API like this. But in a demo app on a KZfaq video that cannot be edited or changed even if the API changes, you might choose something simpler.

Thanks Maxime! That is a glorious bit of software. Get it at zipzapmac.com/Go2Shell

Thanks! It's likely possible. There is deep integration with JavaScript and PyScript. And JavaScript can do webcam stuff. So I'd see how to do it in JavaScript and then tie it in there.

Hi! I was making a personal project using openCV (and mediapipe) and had the same question. Did you ever figure out what to do? Thanks!

Hey. I clicked my Go2Shell button (an add on) in Finder. But then just ran a virtual environment command like any other after it opened. As for running server-side, interesting yes. But AFAIK not something they are working on.

I’m still an amateur at programming and IT, but what about storing the modules on a server and requesting them as needed from the program? I’m assuming the request module would function just fine considering it comes with the python installation.

No, it runs out of the browser. To use a library, you have to link to the 2heel on the internet or your static files folder.

JS is way faster since python is an interpreted language. BUT IMO, python is way easier to learn and its more intuitive

when you need python modules. I think it is data science / math domain

Yep! There is even a chapter in the video exactly about that: 14:58 DOM manipulation and driving the UI with client-side Python

Thanks! In a more full-featured app, you would sync the remote data to local storage then process that data and show it with pyscript if you're offline and use the api when you are online. But that wasn't the point of this video so I didn't make it that complex.

Ha, it is in a sense.

Yeah, I think it has full interop between JavaScript, so it should be able to be used at least in that style.

@@mikeckennedy Typescript already won me, but i don't see harm in trying this out for fun, thanks