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Writing a Python C extension in 2018

by jbaviat on 5/16/18, 11:13 PM with 1 comments

• by jbaviat on 5/16/18, 11:13 PM

  I'm the author of https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer, used as example in this deck.

  I introduce how I leveraged ctypes + Python manylinux wheels (PEP513 / PEP571) in order to allow loading V8 easily into Python, without requiring local compilation on install nor having us maintaining a huge test matrix:

      $ pip install py-mini-racer
      $ python
      >>> from py_mini_racer import py_mini_racer
      >>> ctx = py_mini_racer.MiniRacer()
      >>> ctx.eval('1+1')
      2
  
  

  So this shared object could be used in any language allowing to interact with arbitrary shared objects (e.g. Ruby with fiddle).