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Demo repo showing how to build Python extension using Rust.

This was built usingrustc 1.4.0-nightly (dcdcc6f6b 2015-08-11) and run onPython 2.7.10. To run with Python3 change the[dependencies.cpython] section that saysfeatures = ["python27-sys"] tofeatures = ["python3-sys"] (note, this is untested). For best results it is recommended to use exactly what I did.

1. Runcargo build --release
2. Runpython try_in_python.py

This repo was created because my initial attempt to use the code Higgs provided didn't work due to very recent changes indgrunwald/rust-cpython andSkylerLipthay/interpolate_idents. Long term I'm sure this will no longer be an issue but for those who want to do this now, this is helpful. Please refer to myCargo.toml to see exactly what versions of these dependencies you'll need to successfully use this. NOTE: for now this repo is using a fork ofinterpolate_idents by dgrunwald, foundhere. There is a PR for these changes to be merged back in, foundhere, which should hopefully soon make this repo unnecessary.

The example code comes straight from Ewan Higgs post on using Rust cpython crate. For a more detailed look into Higgs work see his blog posthere.