interop

Maturin

• https://github.com/PyO3/maturin
• Builds and publishes Python native (machine code) modules that are written in Rust
• Makes such modules available from Python registry as if they were normal Python packages

PyO3

• https://github.com/pyo3/pyo3
• Bidirectional bindings
  • Use Rust from Python
  • Use Python from Rust

Use Rust from Python

• maturin init allows creating Cargo project setup for use with PyO3

• maturin develop installs the package into a Python env such that it would be usable from Python

  >>> import written_in_rust
  >>> written_in_rust()
  

Use Python from Rust

• Create Cargo project normally

• Add pyo3 dep

  #![allow(unused)]
  fn main() {
  use pyo3::prelude::*
  }