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 .