Title: interpreter doesn’t adhere to Python language
Last modified: September 13, 2020

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# interpreter doesn’t adhere to Python language

 *  [joooeey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joooeey/)
 * (@joooeey)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/interpreter-doesnt-adhere-to-python-language/)
 * I was quite excited about this tool. Then disappointed to find out that the interpreter
   doesn’t implement the Python language correctly. Literally the first I thing 
   I tried didn’t work the way it should: Python guarantees that sorting is stable,
   so if you run `sorted(mylist, key=...)` twice with different `key` keywords, 
   the first sort should be preserved. But that didn’t work in Withcode. Too bad.

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 *  Plugin Author [pddring](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pddring/)
 * (@pddring)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/interpreter-doesnt-adhere-to-python-language/#post-13512989)
 * Thanks for your comments. Sorry to hear you’re disappointed. You’re right, the
   Python interpreter uses Skulpt which is an in-browser javascript emulation of
   a subset of the Python language. It’s designed for teachers and students just
   starting out with Python but as you go beyond the basics you’ll soon find things
   that don’t quite work as expected.
 * If you want a ‘proper’ online python interpreter try repl.it which runs your 
   code on a sandboxed remote server. This gets you a better level of compatibility
   but you lose some of the responsiveness of running the code in your browser.
 * Would you be willing to provide more information about the code you tested and
   what should happen and I’ll do my best to fix it? You can contact me via [https://blog.withcode.uk/about/contact/](https://blog.withcode.uk/about/contact/)

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