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Will this be available for Python, too? The example code is all JavaScript, but presumably this uses APIs under the hood that could be called by other languages.

I've been a happy user of Python on Vercel for years, but I often feel like languages other than JavaScript are very poorly represented, both in the community and the documentation.

My notes on running Python on Vercel: https://til.simonwillison.net/zeit-now/python-asgi-on-now-v2

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Yes! Any postgres and redis client will just work. And the blob store has a REST API.

Based on this code example:

    import { sql } from '@vercel/postgres';

    const { rows } = await sql`
        INSERT INTO products (name)
        VALUES (${formData.get('name')})
    `;

Presumably authentication is handled transparently? I really like that - reminds me of Deno's new KV cloud stuff too.

Is that done with environment variables? I'd want a way to tap into that from Python code as well.

Yeah, if you go into the dashboard it gives you a bunch of options for connecting to the DB including the names of the automatically generated environment variables. And that includes POSTGRES_URL which most tools default to.

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