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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

Section 2: Fusing Rust with Python

Now that you are familiar with Rust, we can start utilizing it. Before we do this, we need to cover how to build Python packages that can be installed with pip. Once this has been done, we can build Python pip modules in Rust. This is where we can import our compiled Rust code into our Python code and run it with all the benefits of Rust in our Python application. We then go further into this by working with Python objects and using Python modules inside the Rust code.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 4, Building pip Modules in Python
  • Chapter 5, Creating a Rust Interface for Our pip Module
  • Chapter 6, Working with Python Objects in Rust
  • Chapter 7, Using Python Modules in Rust
  • Chapter 8, Structuring an End-to-End Python Module in Rust