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:

python3 -m 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

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, i want to develop using:

zig build test --watch

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