Speed Up Your Python with Rust

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Getting to Understand Rust

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Rust from a Python Perspective

Technical requirements

Understanding the differences between Python and Rust

Why fuse Python with Rust?

Passing strings in Rust

Sizing up floats and integers in Rust

Managing data in Rust's vectors and arrays

Replacing dictionaries with hashmaps

Error handling in Rust

Understanding variable ownership

Copy

Move

Immutable borrow

Mutable borrow

Keeping track of scopes and lifetimes

Building structs instead of objects

Metaprogramming with macros instead of decorators

Summary

Questions

Answers

Further reading

Chapter 2: Structuring Code in Rust

Technical requirements

Managing our code with crates and Cargo instead of pip ...