Python.md

WebAssembly with Python

Environment Setup

Docker

Install docker using the instructions here

CPython's WASM build

Steps to build a CPython WebAssembly Build

• Clone the repo https://github.com/singlestore-labs/python-wasi/

git clone https://github.com/singlestore-labs/python-wasi/

• Change directory to python-wasi using the command: cd python-wasi
• Build the docker image using the command: docker build -f docker/Dockerfile -t wasi-build:latest docker
• Now start the docker container and mount the current directory was working directory inside docker container:

docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) wasi-build:latest bash

• To download the CPython source, dependencies and to build the CPython's WASM build, run the command:

./run.sh

• The build output is saved at opt/wasi-python/.

Wasmtime

Install wasmtime using the instructions at wasmtime.dev

Python Program to Print the Fibonacci sequence

nterms = 10
n1, n2 = 0, 1
count = 0
if nterms == 1:
   print("Fibonacci sequence upto",nterms,":")
   print(n1)
else:
   print("Fibonacci sequence:")
   while count < nterms:
       print(n1)
       nth = n1 + n2
       # update values
       n1 = n2
       n2 = nth
       count += 1

Running the python code on wasmtime

• Change directory to the root python-wasi source directory.
• Save the fibonacci code source at $HOME/fib.py
• Run the python fibonacci code in wasmtime using the command

wasmtime run --mapdir=$(pwd)/opt::opt \
             -- opt/wasi-python/bin/python3.wasm -c "$(cat $(pwd)/fib.py)"

output:

Fibonacci sequence:
0
1
1
2
3
5
8
13
21
34