Rust bindings for the Python interpreter. This includes running and interacting with python code from a rust binaries as well as writing native python modules.

Pyo3 supports python 2.7 as well as python 3.5 and up. The minimum required rust version is 1.27.0-nightly 2018-05-01.

To use pyo3, add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
pyo3 = "0.2"

Example program displaying the value of sys.version:

extern crate pyo3;

use pyo3::prelude::*;

fn main() -> PyResult<()> {
    let gil = Python::acquire_gil();
    let py = gil.python();
    let sys = py.import("sys")?;
    let version: String = sys.get("version")?.extract()?;

    let locals = PyDict::new(py);
    locals.set_item("os", py.import("os")?)?;
    let user: String = py.eval("os.getenv('USER') or os.getenv('USERNAME')", None, Some(&locals))?.extract()?;

    println!("Hello {}, I'm Python {}", user, version);
    Ok(())
}

Pyo3 can be used to write native python module. The example will generate a python-compatible library.

For MacOS, "-C link-arg=-undefined -C link-arg=dynamic_lookup" is required to build the library. setuptools-rust includes this by default. See examples/word-count and the associated setup.py. Also on macOS, you will need to rename the output from *.dylib to *.so. On Windows, you will need to rename the output from *.dll to *.pyd.

Cargo.toml:

[lib]
name = "rust2py"
crate-type = ["cdylib"]

[dependencies.pyo3]
version = "0.2"
features = ["extension-module"]

src/lib.rs

#![allow(unused_variables)]
#![feature(use_extern_macros, specialization)]

fn main() {
extern crate pyo3;
use pyo3::prelude::*;



// Add bindings to the generated python module
// N.B: names: "librust2py" must be the name of the `.so` or `.pyd` file
/// This module is implemented in Rust.
#[pymodinit]
fn rust2py(py: Python, m: &PyModule) -> PyResult<()> {

    #[pyfn(m, "sum_as_string")]
    // ``#[pyfn()]` converts the arguments from Python objects to Rust values
    // and the Rust return value back into a Python object.
    fn sum_as_string_py(a:i64, b:i64) -> PyResult<String> {
       let out = sum_as_string(a, b);
       Ok(out)
    }

    Ok(())
}

// The logic can be implemented as a normal rust function
fn sum_as_string(a:i64, b:i64) -> String {
    format!("{}", a + b).to_string()
}

}

For setup.py integration, see setuptools-rust