How to Call Rust from Python

Python's performance can be a bottleneck for certain tasks, such as processing loops that cannot be easily vectorized. To address this, performance-critical code sections can be rewritten in Rust and called from Python, combining Python's ease of use with Rust's speed. This integration is facilitated by tools like `maturin` for building and packaging, and `PyO3` for creating the language bindings. The article demonstrates this process with a text normalization example, providing code and benchmarks that show a significant speed improvement over a pure Python implementation.