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Docker Official Image packaging for Python

13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2017-09-19 · latest 2025-05-22

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  1. …for deploying applications using 3.13t and 3.14t? Looking at https://hub.docker.com/_/python/ and https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/947 , it seems to have been ignored. Without one, it's all useless. Almost no one wants to…
    comment by OutOfHere · 2025-05-22 · in Free-Threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker
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    Why is the `Python` Docker image slower than Python of my local machine?
    story by tosh · 2024-09-01 · 0 comments
  3. …there are also horror stories of Alpine resulting in way worse performance in select use cases: https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/509 and there's the fact that Alpine might be popular inside of containers, but way less so…
    comment by KronisLV · 2023-07-05 · in Ask HN: Why is there no major push towards Android for Servers and Desktops?
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    Latest Python 3.9/3.8 images break encoding
    story by ilpianista · 2022-04-15 · 0 comments
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    We don't have any control over the signing process of Docker images we publish
    story by fprct · 2021-11-22 · 0 comments
  6. …using these images would get an instant speedup. [0]: https://bugs.python.org/issue38980 [1]: https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/501
    comment by blopker · 2021-06-12 · in Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython
  7. Those images pull from python.org sources, see: https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/master/3.8/bus...
    comment by AaronFriel · 2021-02-19 · in Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input
  8. …the point of the results [1], they show a decent speed up when using Debian vs Alpine as well. [0] https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/160 [1] https://gist.github.com/blopker/9fff37e67f14143d2757f9f2172c...
    comment by blopker · 2019-05-08 · in Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password
  9. Seems like someone is indeed compiling: https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/65b5603fdf177c...
    comment by fock · 2019-04-30 · in Show HN: Python virtual environment, but backed by Docker
  10. …I just can’t bring myself to practice. Why would anyone inflict this language on themselves? [0] https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/master/update....
    comment by austinpray · 2018-09-15 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
  11. …were introduced by using more aggressive compiler flags? The image has "lto" in the name, and at https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/160 I see this comment: > In the future the Python developers may decide to turn on further…
    comment by greglindahl · 2017-12-02 · in Optimized Python Docker Image
  12. I think these optimizations are upstream, but they're not in the canonical 'python' docker image: https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/160
    comment by mastax · 2017-12-02 · in Optimized Python Docker Image
  13. From looking at what I think is the Dockerfile for that image ( https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/b1512ead24c6b1... ), that image is complex; it's downloading & building Python in it and adding & removing a dev toolchain, in a…
    comment by pebers · 2017-09-19 · in Minideb – A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers