alt Hacker NewsCan someone please ELI5 what this means for Deno and Python? TFA: "deno is being distributed on pypi for use in python projects" makes it sound like you can now `import deno` and have a JS engine/subsystem in Python, like we finally came full circle from [PyScript](https://pyscript.net/).
However, other comments make it sound like a bunch of other projects have discovered that PyPI is a good distribution channel. Which, to me, sounds like using the Internet Archive as your CDN. Is PyPI the next apt/yum/brew or what?
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hiccuphippo • yesterday at 2:12 AM
I think it's just so the deno binary is available using pip install. Zig does the same thing.
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You can, in fact, `import deno` after installing it. But all this gets you is a function that locates the Deno executable, which you can then invoke e.g. with `subprocess.call`.
(I hope this doesn't become a pattern that puts excessive pressure on PyPI. IMO it should only be used for things that are specifically known to be useful in the Python ecosystem, as a last resort when proper Python API bindings would be infeasible or the developer resources aren't there for it. And everyone should keep in mind that PyPI is just one index, operating a standard protocol that others can implement. Large companies should especially be interested in hosting their own Python package index for supply-chain security reasons. Incidentally, there's even an officially blessed mirroring tool, https://pypi.org/project/bandersnatch/ .)