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Checked August 16, 2026
What Python Playground (WASM) does, with a checked example
This playground runs real CPython inside your browser tab. The interpreter is compiled to WebAssembly by Pyodide, so scripts execute locally with the full standard library and no server involvement: the code you type never leaves your machine. The most common surprise is startup - the first run downloads a multi-megabyte WASM runtime, so output can lag several seconds behind your click. It is a full interpreter, not a calculator: define functions, import modules, and run multi-line programs, and the page keeps one interpreter session alive, so names from an earlier run can affect the next.
Worked example
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
def fib(n):
a, b = 0, 1
for _ in range(n):
a, b = b, a + b
return a
print([fib(i) for i in range(10)]) ->
Expected output
[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34]
The playground executes this as a complete program: fib is defined, the comprehension calls it for 0 through 9, and print writes the resulting list. The values follow the Fibonacci recurrence, so fib(0)=0, fib(1)=1, and each later term is the sum of the two before it.