docker-library/python
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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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…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 -
…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? -
…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 -
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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 -
…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 -
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 -
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