pythonvm-rust

A Python virtual machine, written in Rust.

Status

This project is inactive. Check out RustPython instead

Features

prints strings to stdout
basic exceptions
for loops
functions, positional arguments, keyword arguments, *args, **kwargs
useable as a library
a fine-grained sandbox

Goals

Compatible with CPython 3.6's bytecode, in order to take advantage of FAT Python
Support CPython's implementation of the standard library
No crash, even when messing with code objects
Bytecode optimizations at runtime
Less bounded by the GIL than CPython

Dependencies

CPython 3.6 (used as a parser and bytecode compiler).
Rust
Cargo

Try it

git clone https://github.com/progval/pythonvm-rust.git
cd pythonvm-rust
python3 -m compileall -b pythonlib examples
cargo run pythonlib/ examples/helloworld.pyc