You're reading from Speed Up Your Python with Rust Optimize Python performance by creating Python pip modules in Rust with PyO3

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801811446

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Software Architecture

Author (1):

Maxwell Flitton

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting to Understand Rust

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Rust from a Python Perspective FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Structuring Code in Rust

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Concurrency

5. Section 2: Fusing Rust with Python

6. Chapter 4: Building pip Modules in Python

7. Chapter 5: Creating a Rust Interface for Our pip Module

8. Chapter 6: Working with Python Objects in Rust

9. Chapter 7: Using Python Modules with Rust

10. Chapter 8: Structuring an End-to-End Python Package in Rust

11. Section 3: Infusing Rust into a Web Application

12. Chapter 9: Structuring a Python Flask App for Rust

13. Chapter 10: Injecting Rust into a Python Flask App

14. Chapter 11: Best Practices for Integrating Rust

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Python is an object-oriented language. When we are building our Rust packages, we need to keep the friction of adoption low. The adoption of Rust packages would be better if we keep our interfaces as objects. Most Python packages have object interfaces. Calculations are done with inputs, and the Python object has a range of functions and attributes that give us the results of those calculations. While we did cover creating classes in Rust with pyo3 macros in Chapter 6, Working with Python Objects in Rust, in the Constructing our custom Python objects in Rust section, it is advised that we understand the pros and cons of doing this. We remember that classes written in Rust are faster. However, the freedom of inheritance and metaclassing with pure Python is useful. As a result, it is best to leave the construction and organization of the object interface in pure Python. Any calculations that need to be done can be done in Rust. To demonstrate...