Python Package

Currently LingoDB is distributed as two seperate python packages:

• lingodb-bridge: bundles LingoDB as a binary and implements a basic integration using pybind11
• lingodb: a python-only library that wraps lingodb-bridge and provides a nice interface (and much more in the future)

Working on lingo-db

If you only plan to adapt/extend the python implementation, you do not have to build the lingodb-bridge package yourselve. First install the current version of the lingodb-bridge package.

pip install lingodb-bridge

Then, install the package in development mode so that you can just change the code (tools/python/lingodb) and directly test the changes:

cd tools/python
python -m pip install -e .

For building a release package:

cd tools/python
python -m build .

Building lingodb-bridge

Building a python binary wheel is non-trivial but becomes easy with the docker image we prepared. Just execute the following commands at the repository’s root:

make build-py-bridge PYVERSION=[VERSION]

where [VERSION] is one of:

• 310: for Python 3.10
• 311: for Python 3.11
• 312: for Python 3.12

This will then create a wheel in the current directory that can be installed, e.g.:

pip install lingodb_bridge-0.0.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl