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rust-cpython

Rust bindings for the python interpreter.

• Documentation
• Cargo package: cpython

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Copyright (c) 2015 Daniel Grunwald. Rust-cpython is licensed under the MIT license. Python is licensed under the Python License.

Usage

cpython is available on crates.io so you can use it like this (in your Cargo.toml):

[dependencies.cpython]
version = "*"

Example program displaying the value of sys.version:

extern crate cpython;

use cpython::{PythonObject, Python};

fn main() {
    let gil_guard = Python::acquire_gil();
    let py = gil_guard.python();
    let sys = py.import("sys").unwrap();
    let version = sys.get("version").unwrap().extract::<String>().unwrap();
    println!("Hello Python {}", version);
}