winamd64/python
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open-source programming language.
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Note: this is the "per-architecture" repository for the windows-amd64
builds of the python
official image -- for more information, see "Architectures other than amd64?" in the official images documentation and "An image's source changed in Git, now what?" in the official images FAQ.
Maintained by:
the Docker Community
Where to get help:
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Dockerfile
links(See "What's the difference between 'Shared' and 'Simple' tags?" in the FAQ.)
3.14.0a5-windowsservercore-ltsc2025
, 3.14-rc-windowsservercore-ltsc2025
3.14.0a5-windowsservercore-ltsc2022
, 3.14-rc-windowsservercore-ltsc2022
3.14.0a5-windowsservercore-1809
, 3.14-rc-windowsservercore-1809
3.12.9-windowsservercore-ltsc2025
, 3.12-windowsservercore-ltsc2025
3.12.9-windowsservercore-ltsc2022
, 3.12-windowsservercore-ltsc2022
3.14.0a5
, 3.14-rc
:
3.14.0a5-windowsservercore
, 3.14-rc-windowsservercore
:
3.13.2
, 3.13
, 3
, latest
:
3.13.2-windowsservercore
, 3.13-windowsservercore
, 3-windowsservercore
, windowsservercore
:
3.12.9
, 3.12
:
3.12.9-windowsservercore
, 3.12-windowsservercore
:
Where to file issues:
https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues
Supported architectures: (more info)amd64
, arm32v5
, arm32v6
, arm32v7
, arm64v8
, i386
, mips64le
, ppc64le
, riscv64
, s390x
, windows-amd64
Published image artifact details:
repo-info repo's repos/python/
directory (history)
(image metadata, transfer size, etc)
Image updates:
official-images repo's library/python
label
official-images repo's library/python
file (history)
Source of this description:
docs repo's python/
directory (history)
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open-source programming language. It incorporates modules, exceptions, dynamic typing, very high level dynamic data types, and classes. Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various window systems, and is extensible in C or C++. It is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. Finally, Python is portable: it runs on many Unix variants, on the Mac, and on Windows 2000 and later.
Dockerfile
in your Python app projectFROM winamd64/python:3
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY requirements.txt ./
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
COPY . .
CMD [ "python", "./your-daemon-or-script.py" ]
or (if you need to use Python 2):
FROM winamd64/python:2
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY requirements.txt ./
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
COPY . .
CMD [ "python", "./your-daemon-or-script.py" ]
You can then build and run the Docker image:
$ docker build -t my-python-app .
$ docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-python-app
For many simple, single file projects, you may find it inconvenient to write a complete Dockerfile
. In such cases, you can run a Python script by using the Python Docker image directly:
$ docker run -it --rm --name my-running-script -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp winamd64/python:3 python your-daemon-or-script.py
or (again, if you need to use Python 2):
$ docker run -it --rm --name my-running-script -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp winamd64/python:2 python your-daemon-or-script.py
In the non-slim variants there will be an additional (distro-provided) python
executable at /usr/bin/python
(and/or /usr/bin/python3
) while the desired image-provided /usr/local/bin/python
is the default choice in the $PATH
. This is an unfortunate side-effect of using the buildpack-deps
image in the non-slim variants (and many distribution-provided tools being written against and likely to break with a different Python installation, so we can't safely remove/overwrite it).
The winamd64/python
images come in many flavors, each designed for a specific use case.
winamd64/python:<version>
This is the defacto image. If you are unsure about what your needs are, you probably want to use this one. It is designed to be used both as a throw away container (mount your source code and start the container to start your app), as well as the base to build other images off of.
This tag is based off of buildpack-deps
. buildpack-deps
is designed for the average user of Docker who has many images on their system. It, by design, has a large number of extremely common Debian packages. This reduces the number of packages that images that derive from it need to install, thus reducing the overall size of all images on your system.
winamd64/python:<version>-windowsservercore
This image is based on Windows Server Core (microsoft/windowsservercore
). As such, it only works in places which that image does, such as Windows 10 Professional/Enterprise (Anniversary Edition) or Windows Server 2016.
For information about how to get Docker running on Windows, please see the relevant "Quick Start" guide provided by Microsoft:
View license information for Python 2 and Python 3.
As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).
Some additional license information which was able to be auto-detected might be found in the repo-info
repository's python/
directory.
As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.
docker pull winamd64/python