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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 continuous integration

Our Python pip package is fully functioning. However, this is not the end. We will need to maintain the quality of the code and enable it to be constantly upgraded when we push new features to our module and refactor existing code. Continuous integration enables us to ensure that the tests pass and that the standard of quality is maintained. It also speeds up the deployment process, enabling us to push new iterations within a matter of minutes, enabling us to focus on the task at hand. It also reduces the risk of making a mistake.

As we know, the most mundane, repetitive tasks are the ones that are at the highest risk of a mistake occurring. This is just a fact of life. It's known that most car crashes happen within 5 minutes of the driver's home. This is because the drivers pay less attention and their brain switches off, relying on muscle memory. Deployment processes are the same. They are repetitive and do not require a lot of mental...