Python Zig Zon Parser

A native python extension built with zig to parse zig-object-notation strings into python objects.

On PyPi it is only distributed in source, and built during install. It therefore needs to download the ziglang python package.

Usage

install from source on pypi:

pip install zig-zon

running:

import zig_zon
parsed = zig_zon.parse('.{.allyourcode = .are_belong_to_us, .asd = 123}')
print(parsed)

or, look at the test file

How it works

When you run pip install, the source distribution is downloaded, and since this package depends on the ziglang as well as my setuptools helper package: setuptools-zig-build

to execute zig build and put the resulting library in the wheel.

Developing

as opposed to other solutions for building cpython extensions in zig, i want to develop this using:

zig build test --watch

for linking against the local python installation setuptools-zig-build runs a python script that imports the cpython headers into zig's build cache. When the module is built using pip, zig will get a -Dpython= option pointing to the correct python executable, otherwise system python in PATH is used. pip installation also uses a -Dversion= option for the pip package version.