Python bindings

[elshize]

Still work in progress.

Things left to do:

• Investigate how to make the functions to accept string-like or path-like types instead of a string.
• Set up CI
• Figure out how to easily distribute the python package

[JMMackenzie]

Awesome work so far!

Regarding (1), perhaps this can help? PyO3/pyo3#1377

[elshize]

Awesome work so far!

Regarding (1), perhaps this can help? PyO3/pyo3#1377

This doesn't really help us. First, it's not released yet (not a big issue though). But more importantly, it allows us to pass str from python and automatically convert to say PathBuf so we don't need that explicit conversion. But it doesn't help with someone passing non-string variable to us.

I solved it by having a wrapper function in the python code that casts all arguments to strings. So whatever the user passes, it will work as long as it converts to string. Additionally, any conversion problems will be handled in python, so the user will get some familiar message without Py* types printed out. So I think that's the way to go.

[JMMackenzie]

@elshize I think this is dead now right?