# About Pyodide Python with the scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly. Pyodide may be used in any context where you want to run Python inside a web browser. Pyodide brings the Python 3.8 runtime to the browser via WebAssembly, along with the Python scientific stack including NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, and scikit-learn. The [packages directory](https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/tree/main/packages) lists over 75 packages which are currently available. In addition it's possible to install pure Python wheels from PyPi. Pyodide provides transparent conversion of objects between Javascript and Python. When used inside a browser, Python has full access to the Web APIs. ## History Pyodide was created in 2018 by [Michael Droettboom](https://github.com/mdboom) at Mozilla as part of the [iodide project](https://github.com/iodide-project/iodide). Iodide is an experimental web-based notebook environment for literate scientific computing and communication. ## Contributing See the {ref}`contributing guide ` for tips on filing issues, making changes, and submitting pull requests. Pyodide is an independent and community-driven open-source project. The decision making process is outlined in {ref}`project-governance`. ## License Pyodide uses the [Mozilla Public License Version 2.0](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mpl-2.0/). ## Infrastructure support We would like to thank, - [Mozilla](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/) and [CircleCl](https://circleci.com/) for Continuous Integration resources - [JsDelivr](https://www.jsdelivr.com/) for providing a CDN for Pyodide packages - [ReadTheDocs](https://readthedocs.org/) for hosting the documentation.