pythonlab-packages

This repository consists of packages for use in Python Lab. This can contain any library we want to expose to students or any patches we want to apply to student code. Here are the current packages:

pythonlab_setup

This package handles setup for Python Lab. Specifically, it patches libraries for use in Python Lab. The current patches are:

• We patch matplotlib in order to display graphs correctly. The patch updates the show method to send a base64 encoded string for display in Python Lab.
• We patch requests in order to route requests through code.org's request proxy. This protects students by only allowing requests to an allow-list of urls.

All Python Lab programs are prefixed with setup_pythonlab(), the method this package exposes, which applies the above patches.

Setup

• Install pyenv.
  • See instructions here
• Install python.

  pyenv install $(cat .python-version)
  

  After install, run python --version, which should output 3.12.2.
• Install pipenv.

  pip install --user pipenv
  

• Install all required packages for the package you are working on. Navigate to the folder of the package (for example, packages/pythonlab_setup), and run:

  pipenv install
  

Building a package

From the package folder containing pyproject.toml, run python -m build. The generated .whl file will be in the dist folder.

Run tests

From the folder containing code and tests, run python -m unittest. This will look for tests in all files that start with test.