metacall 0.3.0

A library for providing inter-language foreign function interface calls

Abstract

METACALL Python Port is the port of METACALL to Python Programming Language. With METACALL Python Port you can transparently execute code from Python to any programming language, for example, calling JavaScript, NodeJS, Ruby or C# code from Python.

Install

Install MetaCall binaries first:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metacall/install/master/install.sh | bash

Then install MetaCall Python package through MetaCall:

metacall pip3 install metacall

Example

multiply.rb

def multiply(left, right)
    return left * right
end

main.py

from metacall import metacall_load_from_file, metacall

metacall_load_from_file('rb', [ 'multiply.rb' ]);

metacall('multiply', 3, 4); # 12

Running the example:

metacall main.py