Python and Rust compilation, packages, bindings

24-01-2024

Build Rust Python extensions:

• https://github.com/PyO3/maturin
• https://github.com/PyO3/setuptools-rust and https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3

Python packaging and distribution tool:

• https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer

Examples:

• https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-core

• https://github.com/Lucky-Mano/Poetry_C_Extension_Example/blob/master/pyproject.toml

• creating a native python extension module in rust (setuptools-rust to build rust extensions, PyO3 for rust bindings, src/lib.rs and cargo.toml for library metadata) - link

• taken from Pydantic which is getting an upgrade, the core module being re-written in rust with ~17x speedup