Python bindings

[jtrakk]

I'm wondering if CUE might support Python bindings.

As far as I know, the simplest and most widely supported interfaces are via CFFI, as in this Go example. Binaries can be distributed in the wheel format on PyPI.

[mpvl]

This could live in a cuelang repo, like cuelang/lang-python is someone wants to take this on.

[mpvl]

@jtrakk could you perhaps comment on which features you would want to expose in the API. The API of CUE is quite large.

[jtrakk]

Even a minimal set of features could be useful. For example, translation between CUE strings and built-in Python types (or even JSON strings) would be enough to get started with CUE if it were packaged on PyPI so I could just pip install it.

[bep]

SInce Cue is a Go project, it would probably make sense to look at https://github.com/google/starlark-go

[mbarkhau]

This project has been created in the meantime: https://pypi.org/project/pycue/

It's a wrapper around the cue CLI command.

[cueckoo]

This issue has been migrated to cue-lang/cue#162.

For more details about CUE's migration to a new home, please see cue-lang/cue#1078.