Example Package with Nim

This is a simple example package with Nim module.

Build steps

NOTE: These build steps are using Linux/macOS or similar. For Windows, the Nim module will be compiled to mymodule.pyd instead of mymodule.so.

cd py_module_nim/example_pkg/
nimble install nimpy
nim compile --threads:on --app:lib --out:mymodule.so mymodule
cd ..
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

Publish steps

cd py_module_nim/
pip install twine
twine upload dist/*

Example using package

Write the following Python script to file named try.py:

from example_nim_pkg import mymodule
print(mymodule.greet("World"))

Install the example-nim-pkg-stever package and run the script:

pip install example-nim-pkg-stever
python try.py