* Raise the shared argument-binding errors from the slots that count for themselves
Sites all over the tree checked their own argument counts and keywords and
wrote the message by hand, so they drifted: `attrgetter expected 1 argument,
got 0.` carried a full stop, `TypeVar() got unexpected keyword argument(s):
bogus` named neither the keyword the way its counterpart does nor the
function the way `typevar()` is named, and `_csv`'s dialect parser handed a
whole formatted sentence to `InvalidKeywordArgument`, which then wrapped it
in another one.
`Callee::arity_error` and `Callee::unexpected_keyword` are now public, and
these sites raise through them, so there is one place the wording lives.
`FrameLocalsProxy` counts its arguments before reading its keywords, and
`min`/`max` do too, which is the order `framelocalsproxy_new` and `min_max`
check in. `weakref.ref`, `GenericAlias`, `frozenset`, `attrgetter`,
`itemgetter`, `islice`, `start_new_thread`, `TextIOWrapper`, `AttributeError`,
`NameError`, `TypeVar`, `ParamSpec`, `TypeVarTuple` and `TypeAliasType` all
follow.
Of 25 calls measured against CPython 3.14.6, 21 now produce the identical
string. The four left over need what `Callee` cannot carry: `weakref.proxy`
is a function of its own there rather than a type, `frozenset` names the
subclass being constructed, and `TextIOWrapper` names its first parameter
and counts before converting.
Assisted-by: Claude
* Give the argument-binding errors the constructors the rest of them have
Raising one of these meant writing `Callee::of::<Self>(vm).arity_error(1..=3,
0, vm)` — the vm twice, and a type to know about before you could say what
you meant. Every other error in the tree is a `vm.new_*_error`.
So the message texts move out of `Callee` into functions the vm can call, and
the vm gets `new_arity_type_error` and `new_unexpected_keyword_type_error`
alongside `new_unsupported_bin_op_error` and the rest. A slot names itself
with the `NAME` its class already carries:
return Err(vm.new_arity_type_error(Self::NAME, 1..=3, 0));
return Err(vm.new_unexpected_keyword_type_error(Some("typevar"), &key));
The keyword one takes the name as an `Option` because the parser sometimes
has none of its own, which is what `_PyArg_Parser.fname` being NULL means and
what `_csv`'s dialect parser wants.
`bind_for` and `check_kwargs_empty_for` take anything a `Callee` converts
from, so the slots pass `Self::NAME` there too. `Callee` itself is left to the
binding machinery, which is the only place that needs to carry a name around
rather than use one.
No message changes: 22 of 26 calls still match CPython 3.14.6 exactly, and the
43-call set still stands at 23.
Assisted-by: Claude
RustPython
A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.14.0) Interpreter written in Rust 🐍 😱 🤘.
Usage
Check out our online demo running on WebAssembly.
RustPython requires Rust latest stable version (e.g 1.67.1 at February 7th 2023). If you don't currently have Rust installed on your system you can do so by following the instructions at rustup.rs.
To check the version of Rust you're currently running, use rustc --version. If you wish to update,
rustup update stable will update your Rust installation to the most recent stable release.
To build RustPython locally, first, clone the source code:
git clone https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
RustPython uses symlinks to manage python libraries in Lib/. If on windows, running the following helps:
git config core.symlinks true
Then you can change into the RustPython directory and run the demo (Note: --release is
needed to prevent stack overflow on Windows):
$ cd RustPython
$ cargo run --release -- -c 'print("Hello, RustPython!")'
Hello, RustPython!
Or use the interactive shell:
$ cargo run --release
Welcome to rustpython
>>>>> 2+2
4
NOTE: For windows users, please set RUSTPYTHONPATH environment variable as Lib path in project directory.
(e.g. When RustPython directory is C:\RustPython, set RUSTPYTHONPATH as C:\RustPython\Lib)
You can also install and run RustPython with the following:
$ cargo install --git https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython rustpython
$ rustpython
Welcome to the magnificent Rust Python interpreter
>>>>>
venv
Because RustPython currently doesn't provide a well-packaged installation, using venv helps to use pip easier.
$ rustpython -m venv <your_env_name>
$ . <your_env_name>/bin/activate
$ python # now `python` is the alias of the RustPython for the new env
PIP
If you'd like to make https requests, you can enable the ssl feature, which
also lets you install the pip package manager. Note that on Windows, you may
need to install OpenSSL, or you can enable the ssl-openssl-vendor feature instead,
which compiles OpenSSL for you but requires a C compiler, perl, and make.
OpenSSL version 3 is expected and tested in CI. Older versions may not work.
Once you've installed rustpython with SSL support, you can install pip by running:
cargo install --git https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
rustpython --install-pip
You can also install RustPython through the conda package manager, though
this isn't officially supported and may be out of date:
conda install rustpython -c conda-forge
rustpython
SSL provider
For HTTPS requests, ssl-rustls-aws-lc is enabled by default for the RustPython binary. Embedders can use rustpython-stdlib's provider-agnostic ssl-rustls feature and install their own rustls crypto provider, or replace rustls with ssl-openssl if their environment requires OpenSSL.
Note that to use OpenSSL on Windows, you may need to install OpenSSL, or you can enable the ssl-openssl-vendor feature instead,
which compiles OpenSSL for you but requires a C compiler, perl, and make.
OpenSSL version 3 is expected and tested in CI. Older versions may not work.
WASI
You can compile RustPython to a standalone WebAssembly WASI module so it can run anywhere.
Build
cargo build --target wasm32-wasip1 --no-default-features --features freeze-stdlib,stdlib --release
Run by wasmer
wasmer run --volume `pwd` -- target/wasm32-wasip1/release/rustpython.wasm `pwd`/extra_tests/snippets/stdlib_random.py
Run by wapm
$ wapm install rustpython
$ wapm run rustpython
>>>>> 2+2
4
Building the WASI file
You can build the WebAssembly WASI file with:
cargo build --release --target wasm32-wasip1 --features="freeze-stdlib"
Note: we use the
freeze-stdlibto include the standard library inside the binary. You also have to run oncerustup target add wasm32-wasip1.
JIT (Just in time) compiler
RustPython has a very experimental JIT compiler that compile python functions into native code.
Building
By default the JIT compiler isn't enabled, it's enabled with the jit cargo feature.
cargo run --features jit
This requires autoconf, automake, libtool, and clang to be installed.
Using
To compile a function, call __jit__() on it.
def foo():
a = 5
return 10 + a
foo.__jit__() # this will compile foo to native code and subsequent calls will execute that native code
assert foo() == 15
Embedding RustPython into your Rust Applications
Interested in exposing Python scripting in an application written in Rust,
perhaps to allow quickly tweaking logic where Rust's compile times would be inhibitive?
Then examples/hello_embed.rs and examples/mini_repl.rs may be of some assistance.
Disclaimer
RustPython is in development, and while the interpreter certainly can be used in interesting use cases like running Python in WASM and embedding into a Rust project, do note that RustPython is not totally production-ready.
Contribution is more than welcome! See our contribution section for more information on this.
Conference videos
Checkout those talks on conferences:
Use cases
Although RustPython is a fairly young project, a few people have used it to make cool projects:
- GreptimeDB: an open-source, cloud-native, distributed time-series database. Using RustPython for embedded scripting.
- pyckitup: a game engine written in rust.
- Robot Rumble: an arena-based AI competition platform
- Ruff: an extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust
Goals
- Full Python-3 environment entirely in Rust (not CPython bindings)
- A clean implementation without compatibility hacks
Documentation
Currently along with other areas of the project, documentation is still in an early phase.
You can read the online documentation for the latest release, or the user guide.
You can also generate documentation locally by running:
cargo doc # Including documentation for all dependencies
cargo doc --no-deps --all # Excluding all dependencies
Documentation HTML files can then be found in the target/doc directory or you can append --open to the previous commands to
have the documentation open automatically on your default browser.
For a high level overview of the components, see the architecture document.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome and highly appreciated. To get started, check out the contributing guidelines.
You can also join us on Discord.
Compiling to WebAssembly
Community
Chat with us on Discord.
Code of conduct
Our code of conduct can be found here.
Credit
The initial work was based on windelbouwman/rspython and shinglyu/RustPython
Links
These are some useful links to related projects:
- https://github.com/ProgVal/pythonvm-rust
- https://github.com/shinglyu/RustPython
- https://github.com/windelbouwman/rspython
License
This project is licensed under the MIT license. Please see the LICENSE file for more details.
The project logo is licensed under the CC-BY-4.0 license. Please see the LICENSE-logo file for more details.

