spylang/spy

Make it possible to use the playground for interactive docs

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#312 opened on Nov 15, 2025

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Description

It would be awesome to have a version of the playground which we can embed in documentation and/or blog posts to have interactive snippets.

This is similar in spirit to what @JeffersGlass showed in his excellent pycon talk, with a twist: I think that in his talk, Jeff uses the standard py-editor component, while for spy we probably cannot (because the standard py-editor automatically executes the code with micropython/pyodide, while what we want is to save the content to a virtual file and call the spy cli).

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Research direction
Explore the existing playground code and the py editor component. Understand how the spy CLI works with virtual files. Design a way to embed the playground in documentation that saves code to a virtual file and triggers the spy CLI.
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python
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documentationdeveloper experience
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Python
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