Question: Is there reason for not using smaller Alpine based python as base image for httpbin

[madhub]

Current httpbin docker uses ubuntu has base image, once it is built image size weigh approx 600 MB.
Is there reason for not using smaller Alpine based python as base image,. Alpine base image with python3 & pips is only 52 MB

docker pull python:3.12.0a4-alpine3.17

[MikeRalphson]

Some reasons are discussed in this article https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/