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python-in-a-box

Interactive online Python REPL in 30 lines of JavaScript.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
296GitHub stars
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What it is

Interactive online Python REPL in 30 lines of JavaScript.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:24:10 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-06-07 16:38:06 UTC to 2021-06-07 17:04:35 UTC.

012021-06-07 16:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-07 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 7, 16:002021-06-07 17:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-07 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 7, 17:00

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Jun 7, 16:002021-06-07 16:00:00 UTC2021-06-07 17:00:00 UTC101
Jun 7, 17:002021-06-07 17:00:00 UTC2021-06-07 18:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It's not something you do in "essentially a day" if you want it be secure and reliable. (E.g. the example toy project they link literally just runs python directly on the server: https://github.com/raxod502/python-in-a-box/blob/master/serv... - you'll need to stop doing that very quickly if public). The parts of their stack that repl.it has put on their own Github looks loads more valuable (and I assume are also not covering some of those core problems) Which makes the reaction weird.
In Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

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