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Aliya Rahmani
Aliya Rahmani

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Run python program using WASMTIME

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OUTREACHY CONTRIBUTION SERIES:

  1. Basic Concepts of WebAssembly
  2. Run python program using WASMTIME
  3. A simple calculator with rust using WASM
  4. Compiling BFS in WASM
  5. Deep dive into Enarx

Building python code with WASM

Today we'll learn how to build python code with WebAssembly using wasmtime.

DOCKER INSTALLATION :

  1. Uninstall old versions to avoid errors: 

$ sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc
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  1. Install using the repository: 
$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release
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  1. Add Docker's official GPG key and setup stable repository: 
$ curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
$ echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
$(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
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  1. Install Docker Engine: 
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
$ sudo apt-get install docker-ce=5:20.10.14~3-0~ubuntu-focal docker-ce-cli=5:20.10.14~3-0~ubuntu-focal containerd.io
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  1. Verify that Docker Engine is installed by the command: 
$ sudo docker run hello-world
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CPython's WASM build:

  1. Clone the repo: 
git clone https://github.com/singlestore-labs/python-wasi/
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  1. Go to the directory 'python-wasi' : 
cd python-wasi
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  1. Build the docker image using this command: 
docker build -f docker/Dockerfile -t wasi-build:latest docker
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  1. Let's start the docker container and mount the current and working directory inside the docker container by the command: 
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) wasi-build:latest bash
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  1. To download the CPython source, dependencies and to build the CPython's WASM build, run: 
./run.sh
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Wasmtime

Wasmtime is a small and efficient runtime for WebAssembly & WASI.

$ curl https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh -sSf | bash
$ wasienv install-sdk unstable
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Running the python code on wasmtime

Create a file named CounDigit.py and write the Program:

 

def countDigit(n):
 count = 0
 while n != 0:
  n //= 10
  count += 1
 return count
n = 345289467
print("Number of digits : % d" % (countDigit(n)))
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Run the program 

  1. Switch to the root python-wasi directory.
  2. Run the python code in wasmtime using the command: 
wasmtime run - mapdir=$(pwd)/opt::opt \
 - opt/wasi-python/bin/python3.wasm -c "$(cat $(pwd)/CountDigit.py)"
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Output:

Number of digits :9
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Hope it helps! Do let me know in the comments!

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Silvana •

Cool, I love that is possible to use this tool with python!