Writing a Python extension in Go (Golang)

Question

I currently use Cython to link C and Python, and get speedup in slow bits of python code. However, I\'d like to use goroutines to implement a really slow (and very paralleli

Answer 1

I've written an extension to setuptools which allows you to write cpython extensions that interface with go: https://github.com/asottile/setuptools-golang

There's a couple example extensions here:

• https://github.com/asottile/setuptools-golang-examples
• https://github.com/asottile/dockerfile

The neat thing is these can be installed just like any other pip package and support both cpython and pypy.

PEP 513 manylinux1 wheels can also be built to provide pre-built wheels via the setuptools-golang-build-manylinux-wheels tool.

The approach is nearly identical to the one in @ColonelPanic's answer but uses some additional tricks to enable python2 + python3 compatibility.