Rust Python Extension

Demo repo showing how to build Python extension using Rust.

Directions

This was built using rustc 1.4.0-nightly (dcdcc6f6b 2015-08-11) and run on Python 2.7.10. To run with Python3 change the [dependencies.cpython] section that says features = ["python27-sys"] to features = ["python3-sys"] (note, this is untested). For best results it is recommended to use exactly what I did.

1. Run cargo build --release
2. Run python try_in_python.py

Reason

This repo was created because my initial attempt to use the code Higgs provided didn't work due to very recent changes in dgrunwald/rust-cpython and SkylerLipthay/interpolate_idents. Long term I'm sure this will no longer be an issue but for those who want to do this now, this is helpful. Please refer to my Cargo.toml to see exactly what versions of these dependencies you'll need to successfully use this. NOTE: for now this repo is using a fork of interpolate_idents by dgrunwald, found here. There is a PR for these changes to be merged back in, found here, which should hopefully soon make this repo unnecessary.

Credit

The example code comes straight from Ewan Higgs post on using Rust cpython crate. For a more detailed look into Higgs work see his blog post here.