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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

Configuring setup tools for a Python pip module

Setup tools in Python are how the code in our module is packaged and installed. They provide a set of commands and parameters for the system that is installing the code to process. To explore how this is done, we will package the Fibonacci numbers example introduced in the previous chapter. However, these calculations will be packaged in a pip module. To configure our setup tools, we are going to have to carry out the following steps:

  1. Create a GitHub repository for our Python pip package.
  2. Define basic parameters.
  3. Define a README file.
  4. Define a basic module structure.

Let's have a look at each of these steps in detail in the following subsections.

Creating a GitHub repository

Understandably, a seasoned developer can create a GitHub repository but for the sake of completeness, we will offer all the steps needed. If you can already create a GitHub repository, move on to the next subsection:

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