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Speed Up Your Python with Rust

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Book Image

Speed Up Your Python with Rust

5 (2)
By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Python has made software development easier, but it falls short in several areas including memory management that lead to poor performance and security. Rust, on the other hand, provides memory safety without using a garbage collector, which means that with its low memory footprint, you can build high-performant and secure apps relatively easily. However, rewriting everything in Rust can be expensive and risky as there might not be package support in Rust for the problem being solved. This is where Python bindings and pip come in. This book will help you, as a Python developer, to start using Rust in your Python projects without having to manage a separate Rust server or application. Seeing as you'll already understand concepts like functions and loops, this book covers the quirks of Rust such as memory management to code Rust in a productive and structured manner. You'll explore the PyO3 crate to fuse Rust code with Python, learn how to package your fused Rust code in a pip package, and then deploy a Python Flask application in Docker that uses a private Rust pip module. Finally, you'll get to grips with advanced Rust binding topics such as inspecting Python objects and modules in Rust. By the end of this Rust book, you'll be able to develop safe and high-performant applications with better concurrency support.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Understand Rust
5
Section 2: Fusing Rust with Python
11
Section 3: Infusing Rust into a Web Application

Summary

In this chapter, we went through the basics of Cargo. With Cargo, we managed to build basic applications, document them, compile them, and run them. Looking at how clean and easy this implementation was, it is clear to see why Rust is one of the most favored languages. Managing all the functionality, documentation, and dependencies in one file with a few lines of code speeds up the whole process. Combining this with a strict, helpful compiler makes Rust a no-brainer when it comes to managing complex projects. We managed our complexity by wrapping our module in easy-to-use interfaces and interacting with the user's inputs through the command line.

Right now, as you stand, you can start building Rust code to solve a range of problems. If you want to build an application that interacts as a Rust web server with a frontend and database, I recommend that you read my other book on web development in Rust, Rust Web Programming, and start at Chapter 3, as you have now covered...