Book Image

Speed Up Your Python with Rust

By : Maxwell Flitton
5 (2)
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

Answers

  1. pip install git+https://github.com/maxwellflitton/flitton-fib-py@test  
  2. Yes, they can download it despite not having access to your GitHub repository. If we think about it, we package our pip module in a file and then upload it to the PyPI server. Downloading our package from the PyPI server is not connected to our GitHub repository.
  3. Development dependencies are specific dependencies defined in the requirements.txt file. This ensures that developers can work on the pip package. Package requirements are a little more relaxed and defined in the setup.py file. These get installed when the user installs our package. Package requirements are to enable the pip package to be used.
  4. Rust does the type-checking when it is compiling and fails to compile if the types are inconsistent. Because of this, we cannot run it. Python, however, is an interpreted language. Because of this, we can still run it with the potential errors.
  5. Repetitive tasks are easy to...