Pyg

Bindings for embedded Python3 in Go.

These bindings were built with the Python 3.11 C API as reference. Hypothetically, it should work with versions as low as 3.9, but not any further with 3.8 on its way to the chopping block at time of writing.

The CGO implementation points to the python3-embed configuration. To use a specific version of the Python API, you will need to link the desired version of embedded Python to this *.pc file.

Getting Started

If thre are multiple versions of Python3 installed on you system, and want to use a different version, or pkg-config can't find python3-embed, you need to locate the *.pc files for your Python dev packages.

This command should make it easier to locate where your pkg-config configs are placed on your system.

$ sudo find / -type d -iname *pkgconfig*
/path/to/pkgconfig/files

If you don't find any configurations pointing to a Python API implementation, it is most likely that the needed development packages are not installed.

# For RHEL/Fedora/CentOS systems
$ sudo dnf install python3-devel

# For Debian based systems
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev

To install this package, call the following:

$ go get github.com/WilkinsonK/pyg/lib

Where afterwards you should be able to import Pyg in your project.

import os
import pyg "github.com/WilkinsonK/pyg/lib"

func main() {
    pygi := pyg.PygNewIsolated()
    defer pygi.FinalizeEx()

    status := pygi.InitializeFromConfig()
    if status.IsException() {
		if status.IsExit() {
			os.Exit(status.ExitCode())
		}
		status.ExitStatusException()
	}

    if code, err := pygi.RunString("print('Hello World')"); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    } else {
        return code
    }
}