py_rust_hostname

A simple python extension written in Rust to get the name of the localhost.

Usage example

• Clone the project
• Build the project using cargo build --release
• Navigate to the release folder(target/release)
• On MacOS rename libpy_rust_hostname.dylib to py_rust_hostname.so. On Linux rename libpy_rust_hostname.so to py_rust_hostname.so(Windows is not supported as this extension use libc under the hood)
• Now you are ready to import the module. Let's test it!.

Open your python interpretter

>>> import py_rust_hostname
>>> py_rust_hostname.get_hostname.__doc__
'Return the name of the localhost'
>>> py_rust_hostname.get_hostname()
'<Your Hostname will be displayed here>'
>>> dir(py_rust_hostname)
['__all__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'get_hostname']

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Abdul Niyas P M – @AbdulNiyas19 – [email protected]

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