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Cloudflare has made Python Workers generally available, letting developers run Python on its edge platform by compiling it to WebAssembly via Pyodide inside its V8-based workerd runtime.

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Cloudflare Python Workers Go GA: Running Python at the Edge via WebAssembly

What was announced?

FAQ

What are Cloudflare Python Workers?

A feature on the Cloudflare Developer Platform that lets developers run Python code on the edge without managing servers, by compiling Python to WebAssembly via Pyodide and executing it inside the V8-based workerd runtime.

What are the main limitations of Python Workers?

Most notably, multiprocessing and threading do not work inside the WebAssembly VM, along with other documented constraints of the sandboxed runtime.

Are Python Workers suitable for MENA development teams?

Yes, especially for teams building lightweight APIs or logic close to regional users, since it cuts latency and removes server management. However, avoid workloads that depend on threading or heavy parallel processing.

How does the local development environment work?

Cloudflare provides pywrangler (packaged as workers-py on PyPI), which runs a full local simulation of the platform, including executing Python via Pyodide in WebAssembly inside V8 within a 123MB workerd binary.

Source: Simon Willison (LLM & tools)

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