tl;dr You can now deploy BeeWare apps as web apps on PythonAnywhere with a single command. Install the pythonanywhere-briefcase-plugin, run briefcase publish web static, done. There’s a step-by-step tutorial if you want to try it right now.…
We recently started validating that the postal codes used for paid PythonAnywhere accounts match the ones that people’s banks have on file for the card used. This has led to some confusion, in particular because banks handle postal code val…
If you signed up for an account on PythonAnywhere after 25 March 2025, you’ll have Python versions 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13 available. Additionally, the underlying operating system for your account will be Ubuntu 22.04, rather than the 20.04 use…
Check out the instructions on GitHub and connect your Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, Cursor or any similar tool supporting MCP to PythonAnywhere directly. Large Language Models (LLMs) are no longer just answering questions – they’re rapidl…
Imagine there’s a PythonAnywhere user, homer8bc, with poetic inclinations. He wants to serve his newest poem (he believes it’s quite epic) as a static text page. He’s old school — he doesn’t believe in HTML, and as for CSS? Forget it! His f…
We try to get a newsletter out every month, but in August we were all too busy working on our latest and greatest features to manage it. It wasn’t that we were all out sunning ourselves, honest :-) This is actually quite a big deal, even if…
Back in March, we discovered a problem on PythonAnywhere. Some of the people who were signing up reported that the site was telling them that they’d used all of their 500Mb disk quota, even though they had almost no files. When we logged in…
We’ve spent the last few days battling PayPal’s systems and finding out that supporting Hosting accounts (which will let you host a Python web application on your own domain) as well as Premium account isn’t quite as easy as we thought it w…
This morning’s system update went pretty smoothly, and we have some cool new stuff to announce: You can now get an HTTPS certificate for your custom domain using Let’s Encrypt without all that tedious mucking around with dehydrated – and yo…
On Thursday 5 September 2024 we performed some system maintenance. It appeared to have gone well, and was completed at the scheduled time (06:20 UTC), but unfortunately there were unexpected knock-on effects that caused issues later on in t…
Scary times. We hope everyone reading this is well and keeping safe! We thought it would be a good idea to tell you how we’re managing the current crisis at PythonAnywhere. We switched over to remote working last Thursday, 12 March; there a…
We’ve got a present for all of our paying customers – if you celebrate Christmas, you can call it a Christmas present, and if you don’t you can just call it a present :-) IPython notebooks are now available on all paid accounts on PythonAny…