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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 have built a fully fleshed-out Python pip module with command-line tools, interfaces, and Rust code. We managed gitignore for both Rust and Python development. We then defined our setup tools for packaging our Python code and module with the compilation of Rust code that has Python bindings. Once these were defined, we learned how to build Rust functions that spanned multiple Rust files that could be wrapped in pyo3 bindings.

Our development did not just stop at Rust. We also explored Python's singleton and adapter design patterns to build more advanced Python interfaces for our users. We then tested our code with unit tests and speed checking. It must be noted that we did not cover GitHub actions in this chapter. GitHub actions are defined in the same way as they were in the previous chapter. Instead of running tests using the Python unit test, we run our tests using Cargo and so on. However, uploading to PyPI is a little more complicated. To cover...