# The py5 category would benefit from details

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**Created:** [June 27, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/the-py5-category-would-benefit-from-details/46615 "2025-06-27T13:40:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![sableraph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/sableraph/32/251_2.png) [@sableraph](https://discourse.processing.org/u/sableraph)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/the-py5-category-would-benefit-from-details/46615/10 "2025-08-25T13:50:07Z")

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> [@hx2A](#):
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> @sableraph , is this something you can help with? What can I do to make a positive contribution here?

Hi Jim,

Thanks for offering to help 💙

Like Processing.py itself, the website isn’t actively maintained, but I did upgrade it a while ago so it now builds and deploys automatically to Netlify, which makes changes easier. You can open a Pull Request to [this repository](https://github.com/processing/processing-python-website) to add a reference to py5.

The right balance, I think, is to note that Processing.py still works with Processing 3.5.4, but to encourage people to use py5 with Thonny if they need Python 3 or deeper integration with the Python ecosystem. This post is a good reference: [Py5 vs Processing.py - #2 by tabreturn](https://discourse.processing.org/t/py5-vs-processing-py/38452/2)

Once there’s a working PDE mode for py5, we can revisit the website and make the deprecation of Processing.py more explicit.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,  
Raphaël

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