py-mini-racer 0.1.6

Minimal, modern embedded V8 for Python.

Minimal, modern embedded V8 for Python.

• Free software: ISC license

Features

• Unicode support

• Thread safe

• Re-usable contexts

• Binary object is Python agnostic

MiniRacer can be easily used by Django or Flask projects to minify assets, run babel or compile CoffeeScript.

Examples

py_mini_racer is straightforward to use:

>>> from py_mini_racer import py_mini_racer
>>> ctx = py_mini_racer.MiniRacer()
>>> ctx.eval('1+1')
2
>>> ctx.eval("var x = {company: 'Sqreen'}; x.company")
u'Sqreen'
>>> print ctx.eval(u"'\N{HEAVY BLACK HEART}'")
❤
>>> ctx.eval("var fun = () => ({ foo: 1 });")
>>> ctx.call("fun")
{u'foo': 1}

Variables are kept inside of a context:

>>> ctx.eval("x.company")
u'Sqreen'

[1,2,3].map(n => n + 1);

Compatibility

PyMiniRacer is only compatible with Python 2.7 at the moment. Python 3 support is on its way.

Binary builds availability

The PyMiniRacer binary builds have been tested on x86_64 with:

• OSX 10.11

• Ubuntu >= 14.04

• Debian >= 8

• CentOS >= 7

You need pip >= 8.1 to install the wheels - you can check and upgrade yours in this way:

$ pip --version
$ pip install --upgrade pip

It should work on any Linux with a libc >= 2.17 and a wheel compatible pip (>= 8.1).

If you have a up-to-date pip and it doesn’t use a wheel, you might have an environment for which no wheel is built. Please open an issue.

Installation

We built Python wheels (prebuilt binaries) for OSX 64 bits and Linux 64 bits - most recent distributions. You need pip >= 1.4 and setuptools >= 0.8.

$ pip install py-mini-racer

Build

You can build v8 with the command:

$ python setup.py build_v8

You can also build the ctype extension:

$ python setup.py build_ext

Which automatically builds v8.

You can generate a wheel with the command:

$ python setup.py bdist_wheel

which builds v8, the extension, and generates a wheel.

Tests

If you want to run the tests, you need to build V8 first, then launch:

$ python setup.py test --addopts tests

Credits

Built with love by Sqreen.

PyMiniRacer launch was described in this blog post.

PyMiniRacer is inspired by mini_racer, built for the Ruby world by Sam Saffron.

Tools used in rendering this package:

• Cookiecutter

• cookiecutter-pypackage

Todo

Lower libc version needed. Export V8 version. Fix circular structures export.

History

0.1.6 (2016-08-12)

• Add error message when py_mini_racer sdist fails to build asking to update pip in order to download the pre-compiled wheel instead of the source distribution.

0.1.5 (2016-08-04)

• Build py_mini_racer against a static Python. When built against a shared library python, it doesn’t work with a static Python.

0.1.4 (2016-08-04)

• Ensure JSEvalException message is converted to unicode

0.1.3 (2016-08-04)

• Fix extension loading for python3

• Add a make target for building distributions (sdist + wheels)

• Fix eval conversion for python 3

0.1.2 (2016-08-03)

• Fix date support

• Fix Dockerfile for generating python3 wheels

0.1.1 (2016-08-02)

• Fix sdist distribution.

0.1.0 (2016-08-01)

• First release on PyPI.