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Getting Started

Frequently Asked Questions

What is trinket?

trinket is an all-in-one, browser-based coding environment designed for education. Teachers and students use it to write and run code during class, and to build interactive projects and courses to share with others.

How can I get started with trinket?

Try one of the sample projects on your My Trinkets page. If you're new to Python, work through the free activities on our Hour of Python courses, or read the guides in our documentation.

What version of Python do you use?

The browser-based Python trinket supports a large subset of both Python 2 and Python 3 and includes visual modules such as turtle. It defaults to Python 3 behavior where the versions differ. Add #!/bin/python3 as the first line to require its strict Python 3 compatibility mode.

The server-side Python 3 trinket runs CPython and includes scientific libraries, but its headless sandbox cannot display Tkinter-based modules such as turtle. Use a Pygame trinket when real CPython 3 code requires a graphical display.

How do I add an interactive trinket to my website?

Save your trinket, then open the Share options and copy the embed code, which looks like this:

<iframe src="https://trinket.io/embed/python/b9b4074bb7" width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Paste it into the HTML of your web page. Learn more about embedding trinkets here.

Is trinket free?

Yes. This is the open source version of trinket, so every feature is free for everyone. Grab the code on GitHub.

Our Documentation Courses

Getting Started with trinket

Getting Started with Python

Teaching with trinket

Step 1.

Create a Course

Step 2.

Add Content & Trinkets

Step 3.

Add Students & Collaborators

Learn more and get ideas about teaching with trinket from Part 3 of our trinket documentation course.

Self-Hosting & Development

Trinket is open source software. For information on running your own instance, or to report bugs and request features, see the GitHub repository.