* Add no_memory_error for allocation failures Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 * Use no_memory_error at allocation failure sites Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 * Raise MemoryError instead of aborting on sequence repeat allocation failure Vec::with_capacity and Vec::reserve in SequenceExt::mul and SequenceMutExt::imul call handle_alloc_error on failure, which aborts the process under panic = "abort". `[1, 2, 3] * 10**17` passes the MAX_MEMORY_SIZE guard (2.4e18 bytes < isize::MAX) and aborted at the allocation instead of raising MemoryError. Use try_reserve_exact and map failures to vm.no_memory_error(). This also removes the n != 2 special case in imul: with the reserve done unconditionally, the copy loop runs zero times for n == 2 and the final append uses the reserved capacity. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 * Recycle MemoryError instances through a dedicated payload freelist no_memory_error allocated the exception object on every raise, so under real memory exhaustion the raise itself could abort. Keep dead MemoryError husks in a process-wide reserve and revive them on the next raise without touching the allocator. The freelist is scoped to MemoryError at the type level. PyMemoryError already exists as a transparent wrapper payload, but instances never used it: the default exception slot_new delegates to the base class, so everything was constructed as PyBaseException. Route no_memory_error through a PyMemoryError-typed construction instead; the freelist hooks live on PyMemoryError's own PyPayload impl, the dealloc glue is monomorphized per payload type, and the existing exact-type push gate admits exactly MemoryError husks. The #[pyexception] macro always generates the PyPayload impl, which left no way to attach freelist configuration; a payload = "manual" attribute now skips that generation so a type can write its own impl, mirroring the generated PAYLOAD_TYPE_ID chain and class-based downcast validation that keep the payload flavors interchangeable. Exceptions are the first HAS_DICT freelist type, so their husks carry an ObjExt prefix that PyInner::dealloc would normally drop; clear its instance dict and member slots before pushing so no stale attributes survive into a revived instance. The reserve is a process-wide Mutex rather than a thread_local so a single prewarm at interpreter init covers every thread; MemoryError is a cold path, so the lock is uncontended. Python-level MemoryError() still constructs a PyBaseException payload through the delegated slot_new and simply does not participate, matching CPython, where only the PyErr_NoMemory path uses the preallocated reserve. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 * Clear MemoryError husks before they enter the freelist Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 * Use no_memory_error for the bz2 allocation failure The shared bz2 engine maps BZ_MEM_ERROR to Bz2Error::Mem; report it through no_memory_error like the other allocation-failure sites, matching PyErr_NoMemory in CPython's _bz2module. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 * Change MemoryError husks Vec to a fixed-size array Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1 * Increase MemoryError freelist size from 4 to 16 * Address review: keep repeat and husk clearing allocation-safe Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
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.

