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Speed Up Your Python with Rust

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811446
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maxwell Flitton Maxwell Flitton
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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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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  1. We initially must get Python from the GIL. We then must build a PyDict struct in order to store and pass Python variables between Python executions. We then define the Python code as a string literal and pass this into our py.eval function with our PyDict storage.
  2. We must make sure that we get Python from the GIL. We then use this to run the py.eval function with the import line of code passed in as a string literal. We must remember to pass in our PyDict storage to ensure that we can reference the module in the future.
  3. We must remember that Python code returns a PyAny struct, which we can extract using the following code:
    let code = "5 + 6";
    let result = py.eval(code, None, Some(&locals)).unwrap();
    let number = result.extract::<i32>().unwrap();

    We can see that number should be 11.

  4. This is because the Python versions must keep stopping to clean up variables with the garbage collection mechanism.
  5. It would be slightly slower. This is because...
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