panproto

Python bindings for panproto, a schematic version-control system that treats every supported schema language (around 50, including ATProto, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema, and Kubernetes CRDs) as views over a single graph format.

The bindings are built with PyO3 against the Rust core directly: no WASM runtime, no subprocess, no shelling out. The full panproto surface is available from Python, including the schema/migration/lens/VCS pipelines and the tree-sitter-driven parser for 259 programming languages.

Status

panproto is pre-1.0. The 0.x series carries arbitrary breaking changes between minor versions; the panproto package version tracks the workspace version on every release. Python 3.13+ is required (the wheels are abi3 and forward-compatible across newer Python releases).

Installation

pip install panproto

Wheels are published on PyPI for Linux x86_64/aarch64, macOS arm64+x86_64, and Windows x86_64. No Rust toolchain is required to install.

Synopsis

import panproto

# Pick a built-in protocol, or define your own with `Protocol.from_theories`.
atproto = panproto.get_builtin_protocol("atproto")

# Build a schema using the fluent builder.
v1 = atproto.schema()
v1.vertex("post", "record", "app.bsky.feed.post")
v1.vertex("post:body", "object")
v1.vertex("post:body.text", "string")
v1.edge("post", "post:body", "record-schema")
v1.edge("post:body", "post:body.text", "prop", "text")
v1.constraint("post:body.text", "maxLength", "3000")
schema_v1 = v1.build()

# (build schema_v2 the same way, with the field renamed to `content` ...)

# Detect breaking changes.
report = panproto.diff_and_classify(schema_v1, schema_v2, atproto)
print(report.compatible)        # True or False
print(report.report_text())     # human-readable summary

# Auto-generate a bidirectional converter.
lens, quality, _ = panproto.auto_generate_lens(schema_v1, schema_v2, atproto)
view, complement = lens.get(instance)
restored = lens.put(view, complement)

# Version-control schemas.
repo = panproto.Repository.init("/path/to/repo")
repo.add(schema_v1)
repo.commit("initial schema", "anonymous")
repo.create_and_checkout_branch("feature")
repo.merge("feature", "anonymous")

API overview

Module / class	Purpose
`Schema`, `SchemaBuilder`	Fluent schema construction; `Schema.validate(protocol)` checks rules.
`Protocol`	Schema-language definition. `Protocol.from_theories(...)` builds one from a `Theory`.
`get_builtin_protocol(name)`	Load any of the ~50 builtin protocols by name.
`define_protocol(spec)`	Define a custom protocol from a dict.
`Theory`, `create_theory`, `TheoryBuilder`	GAT-level theory construction. `Theory.from_nickel(src)` / `from_yaml(src)` / `from_json(src)` / `from_path(p)` load theory-DSL documents; `to_yaml()` / `from_dict_yaml(s)` round-trip the flat `panproto_gat::Theory` shape (JSON pair already provided).
`diff_schemas`, `diff_and_classify`	Structural diff and breaking-change classification.
`auto_generate_lens`	Generate a bidirectional `Lens` from two schemas.
`Lens`	`get(instance) -> (view, complement)`, `put(view, complement) -> instance`.
`ProtolensChain`	`from_dsl_json(src, body_vertex)` / `from_dsl_yaml` / `from_dsl_nickel` / `from_dsl_path` compile a `panproto-lens-dsl` document into a chain anchored at the named body vertex of the source schema.
`MigrationBuilder`, `compile_migration`, `compose_migrations`	Hand-rolled migration construction.
`Instance`, `IoRegistry`	Parse/emit data across the 50+ supported formats.
`Repository`	Filesystem-backed VCS: init, commit, branch, merge, log, blame, bisect, stash, tag, plus data versioning.
`AstParserRegistry`, `parse_source_file`, `ParseEmitLens`	Full-AST parsing across 259 languages via tree-sitter. `AstParserRegistry.override_grammar(name, extensions, language_ptr, node_types, ...)` swaps a registered grammar at runtime for dev-time grammar work.
`Schema.constraints_for`, `Schema.field_text`	Read every constraint on a vertex; pull the text of a tree-sitter `field('<name>', anonymous-token)` child via `schema.field_text(vid, "name")`.
`Expr`, `parse_expr`, `pretty_print_expr`	Embedded expression language.

Companion grammar packs

The published panproto wheel ships only the 11 group-core tree-sitter grammars (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#, C++, PHP, Bash, C, Go, Rust). Beyond that, grammars are distributed as separately-installable companion wheels, one per language group:

Wheel	Languages
`panproto-grammars-web`	HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, TSX, JSON, Vue, Svelte, Astro, GraphQL
`panproto-grammars-systems`	C, C++, Rust, Go, Zig, D, Nim, Odin, V, Hare
`panproto-grammars-jvm`	Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, Clojure
`panproto-grammars-scripting`	Python, Ruby, Lua, Bash, Perl, R, Julia, Nushell, Fish
`panproto-grammars-data`	JSON, TOML, XML, YAML, SQL, CSV, GraphQL, Protobuf
`panproto-grammars-functional`	Haskell, OCaml, Elm, Gleam, Erlang, Elixir, PureScript, F#, Clojure, Scheme, Racket
`panproto-grammars-devops`	Dockerfile, Terraform, HCL, Nix, Bash, YAML, TOML, Make, CMake
`panproto-grammars-mobile`	Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Java, Objective-C
`panproto-grammars-music`	SuperCollider, LilyPond, ABC, Csound, ChucK, Glicol, Tidal mini-notation, Strudel mini-notation
`panproto-grammars-all`	every grammar in `panproto-grammars` (259 languages)

Install whichever group you need:

pip install panproto-grammars-functional

There is nothing to import from these packages. They register a panproto.grammars entry point on installation; panproto.AstParserRegistry() walks every such entry point and threads the discovered grammar metadata into the native registry on construction. The native class is reachable as panproto._native.AstParserRegistry() for callers who want only the group-core baseline.

How it works under the hood:

Each companion is its own pyo3 cdylib depending on panproto-grammars with one group-* feature flag.
On import, the companion's grammars_metadata() returns a list of dicts containing the tree-sitter Language pointer plus byte-slice pointer/length pairs (cast to integers for transport across cdylib boundaries).
The trust boundary lives on the panproto side, in register_external_from_metadata (crates/panproto-py/src/parse.rs), which decodes the integers back into &'static references and registers a full LanguageParser. The companion's grammar bytes live in its .rodata and stay valid for the process lifetime.
A single broken grammar (e.g. an upstream node-types.json with a malformed entry) is skipped with a RuntimeWarning rather than aborting registration; mirrors the resilience of the built-in path.

Performance notes

The _native extension talks to the Rust core through PyO3's zero-copy pyclass slabs. Schemas, theories, and lenses are reference-counted Rust objects on the Python side; mutations go through dedicated builder types (SchemaBuilder, MigrationBuilder) that consume on build(), so you can't accidentally observe partial state.
Cross-thread sharing of these objects requires the GIL; for parallel work, fan out at the data layer (e.g. parallelise lens.get calls with concurrent.futures) and keep the schema/lens objects per worker.
Wheel-load cost is one-time; the import sets up the protocol registry lazily so cold-start is fast.

Contributing

Source: bindings/python. Issues and pull requests at github.com/panproto/panproto/issues.

The native extension lives at crates/panproto-py on the Rust side; bindings/python/src/panproto/__init__.py is the pure-Python re-export layer that maturin ships alongside the compiled extension.

License

Development Status
- 3 - Alpha
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: MIT License
Programming Language
Typing
- Typed

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